Dr ruth westheimer biography of donald

Ruth Westheimer, better known as Dr. Ruth, was an American sex therapist, media personality, and author who was a pioneer in spreading “sexual literacy.” The New York Times described her as a “Sorbonne-trained psychologist who became a kind of cultural icon in the s She ushered in the new age of freer, franker talk about sex on radio and television—and was endlessly parodied for her limitless enthusiasm and for having an accent only a psychologist could have.”

Westheimer was born Karola Ruth Siegel in in Wiesenfeld (near Karlstadt am Main), Germany, the only child of OrthodoxJews Irma (née Hanauer) and Julius Siegel.

In January , at the age of 10, she was sent to Switzerland by her mother and grandmother as part of the Kindertransport after the Nazis had taken her father. Her haven, along with that of some other German-Jewish children, was made possible by Swiss activist Franzisca Goldschmidt.

In Switzerland, young Karola came of age in an orphanage and stopped