Aliav, Ruth, 1910-1980

LC control no.	n 50034465
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Personal name heading	Aliav, Ruth, 1910-1980 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Aliav, Ruth, 1914- Klüger, Ruth, 1910-1980 Aliav, Ruth Klüger, 1910-1980
Birth date	1910-04-27
Death date	1980-02-16
Found in	Her The last escape, 1973. Contemp. authors, p. 108 (Kluger, Ruth, 1914-1980; born 24-14 (some sources list 4-27-14) in Kiev, Russia; d. Feb. 1980) p. 116 (Ruth Aliav; daughter of Yitzhak and Rachel (Gross) Polisiuk; married Emmanuel Kluger, 1934; adopted name Ruth Aliav in 1948) Encylopedia Judaica. Decennial book, 1973-1982 (Aliav Kluger), Ruth; 1914-1980; the name Aliav, given to her by David Ben-Gurion, ia an anagram of Aliyah Bet) Wikipedia, viewed August 26, 2024: (Ruth Klüger Aliav (née Polishuk) (April 27, 1910-February 16, 1980) was a Ukrainian-born Romanian and Israeli Jewish Zionist activist, assisting in the Aliya Beth before and after World War II. Born in Kiev, Ukraine (then in the Russian Empire until 1918, lived in her youth in Cernăuţi (Czernowitz), Bucovina, then part of the Kingdom of Romania, and nowadays in Ukraine), she was a graduate from the University of Vienna who could speak nine languages. Ruth Klüger went to Palestine after her marriage in 1936 and later joined Aliya Beth, being sent on missions to Romania and other European countries. She was one of ten original members of the Mossad, a Zionist group dedicated to helping Jews escape the Holocaust in Europe. Fluent in nine languages, she raised funds and helped organize the ships the Tiger Hill (September 1939) and the Hilda (January 1940) to carry Jewish refugees to Palestine. After Romania became an Axis Power, she escaped to Istanbul, Turkey and there together with other Mossad agents organized the dispatch of the ship the Darien II in March 1941. A full account of these deeds is in her autobiography The Last Escape, which was a best seller in 1974, and filmed as The Darien Dilemma (2005). She was a Mossad agent in Cairo from 1941 to 1944. In 1944, with Charles de Gaulle's help, she arrived in a liberated Paris and was the first Mossad agent to contact survivors of the Holocaust)