Holocaust survivor Ruth Posner and husband die at Swiss clinic

Holocaust victim Ruth Posner and her husband Michael, both in his 90s, died in a suicide clinic in Switzerland.

The actress, born in Poland, who escaped from the Nazi ghetto as a child and created a successful career for dance and drama, is thought to have died in Pegasos clinic near Basel last weekend.

He and his 97 -year -old Michael said he bought it to BBC News.

In the note reported by Times, the couple said, “I’m sorry that they didn’t mention it, but when you get this e -mail, we mixed this fatal coil.”

“The decision came together for almost 75 years.

“We had an interesting and various life and except the sadness of losing our son Jeremy. We enjoyed the time we spent together, we tried not to regret in the past, to live and wait long from the future. Very love Ruth & Mike”.

Ms. Posner’s close friend Ms. Linden praised her as “the most vibrant, amazing woman” and Mr. Posner “a remarkable, intelligent, intellectual man”.

Ms. Posner, who spoke with PA news agency, said: “Every time I visited her last year, ‘There was enough, we are ready to go, we don’t just want to exist. And what we do is now we are now’ he said.

Most of Ms. Posner’s family was killed in Holocaust, including her family, uncles, aunts and cousins ​​- only one of her and his aunts survived.

After the Nazis occupied Poland, the family was sent to the Radom ghetto – but with the help of his father, Mrs Posner managed to escape to the non -Jewish side and then hid with a Catholic family. While living under a false identity, Poland was imprisoned as Catholic after 1944 Warsaw uprising.

He then managed to hide a local farm near Essen until the end of World War II and allowed him to escape to England at the age of 16.

He continued to be a member of the London Contemporary Dance Theater and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Posner, a chemist, worked in the United Nations Charity Agency UNICEF and after traveling around the world, the couple settled in London. During their death, they lived in Belsize Park.

Ms. Linden told PA to PA when the couple’s deaths were “very sad”, “completely confirmed” and understood why they took it.

Mrs Posner said that he was in favor of legalization in the UK: “He wouldn’t have to make these arrangements, he wouldn’t have to travel, he could say goodbye.”

Parliament thinks whether it will change the law to allow assisted death in England and Wales at the moment, which will be valid for fatal patients who are expected to die reasonably within six months. Reports show that none of Posners are deadly ill.

Holocaust Memorial Trust praised Mrs. Posner and described him as a “extraordinary woman”.

“Although he was in his 80s at that time, he talked to the task with as many young people about his experiences during Holocaust. He hoped the leaders of tomorrow to learn the lessons of the past.” He said.

“Ruth was a kind.

The campaign against anti -Semitism said that “it is effective in educating future generations and never moved away from participating in the struggle against anti -Semitism”.