"Her father was a notions wholesaler in Frankfurt, and together with her parents and grandmother, she lived a comfortable life largely shielded from the reality..."

"... that Germany was becoming ever more perilous for Jews. When the Nazis took her father away in 1938, her mother and grandmother managed to get her included in a group of children sent to a school in the Swiss mountains. There, she later recalled, she was educated only through the eighth grade and served for all practical purposes as a housekeeper for the Swiss children. She never saw her family again; they were all presumed murdered at Auschwitz."

From "Ruth Westheimer, the Sex Guru Known as Dr. Ruth, Dies at 96/Frank and funny, the taboo-breaking psychologist said things on television and radio that would have been shocking coming from almost anyone else" (NYT).