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- Ruth_Weiss_(writer) abstract ". For the American poet and artist, see Ruth weiss. For the musician, see Ruth Dolores Weiss.Ruth Weiss (born July 26, 1924) focuses on anti-racism in all its forms. She is a well-known anti-apartheid journalist and activist, exiled by South Africa and Rhodesia for her writings. She is based in the UK and Germany and writes in both English and German. Her young adult, historical fiction reflects her battles against racism in Germany and Africa.“My Sister Sara” tells of a four-year old, blonde German war orphan patriotically adopted in 1948 by an Afrikaner parliamentarian who sympathizes with the Nazis. The family, a good family, falls in love with the child. When her papers arrive from the orphanage six months later, Pa discovers that Sara's roots are tainted; hate rips through the family. The rejected child only has two options: depression or rebellion. It was selected as compulsory matriculation reading in the German state of Baden-Württemberg in 2007.“Mitzi’s Wedding”: a young German aristocrat defies convention to become a musician in the heady days of Berlin in the 20s and 30s. Charming and exuberant, she braves the mesmerizing ascent of Nazi Germany to marry one of the three men who love her. She is betrayed by the second who cowers before the voice of popular racism and, finally, continents away, is revenged by the third. This novel considers how racism impacts the intertwined, families of victims and oppressors and the everyday voices of silence and dissent.“Judenweg” is the fictional account of a young Jew turned robber out of anger and defiance against 17th century anti-Jewish laws which forced thousands into homelessness, wandering along unmarked paths, unable to remain anywhere for longer than two days. The aimless walk from Fürth to Frankfurt took two weeks.“Blutsteine” (Bloodstones) is a thriller set in Africa in the 90s, when diamonds were used in three-corner barter deals for weapons and drugs.“Sascha und die neun alten Männer”, a children’s book, tells the adventure of a little Russian boy, who stumbles into a small house next to an old synagogue. Here he meets nine old men who have moved together in the hope that one day a Jew will visit the deserted quarter, so that they are “Minjan” – a congregation of ten Jews - to enable them to hold a synagogue service. Sascha finds the tenth man.One of her non-fiction works is a biography of Sir Garfield Todd, the unlikely New Zealand missionary who became the Prime Minister of Rhodesia but was sidelined because of his liberal policies of racial equality.Another compares the Irish and African Freedom Movements.The role of women in revolution is reflected, courageously and brutally, in “The Women of Zimbabwe”, where Weiss often cites the women's narratives directly. One woman's description of avoiding a massacre by hiding in a pit latrine for four days is particularly heart wrenching.“Zimbabwe and the New Elite” examines the dashed hopes of Robert Mugabe’s first independence decade where power was transferred from whites to a new black elite who all too readily abandoned the foundations of their revolution.Her autobiography, “Wege Im Harten Gras” (Paths Through Tough Grass) documents her life till the late 80s and has an epilogue written by her friend, the Nobel Prize winner, Nadine Gordimer.“Friends,” a later autobiography describes her life through a journalist's prism as it intersected with history: Nelson Mandela (South Africa), Thabo Mbeki (South Africa), Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Premier Zhou Enlai (China), Barack Obama Snr (Kenya), Fidel Castro (Cuba), Tiny Roland (Lonrho Plc) and other manipulators of African mineral wealth, brushes with the South African secret police, and even meetings on the Royal Yacht Britannia (Unpublished 2011).".
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