Who are Ruth Posner’s surviving family members as the Holocaust survivor and actress dies with husband? Details explored

As reported by The Times, Ruth Posner and her husband are survived by her grandson, Sonja Linden. Ruth Posner and her husband passed away on September 25, 2025, at a Swiss euthanasia clinic.

Posner and her husband, Michael, sent their friends and family an email where they notified that they had taken their own lives. In the email, the couple wrote,

"Dear family and friends. So sorry not to have mentioned it but when you receive this email we will have "shuffled off this mortal coil." The decision was mutual and without any outside pressure. We had lived a long life and together for almost 75 years. There came a point when failing senses, of sight and hearing and lack of energy was not living but existing that no care would improve."

The two mentioned that despite losing their son, they had a good life,

"We had an interesting and varied life and except for the sorrow of losing Jeremy, our son. We enjoyed our time together, we tried not to regret the past, live in the present and not to expect too much from the future. Much love Ruth & Mike."

Posner is a holocaust survivor from Warsaw, Poland. She escaped the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto by using a falsified passport after her aunt and she escaped to the non-Jewish side. She and her aunt were on the run for three years, and Ruth hid with a Catholic family.

Campaign against Antisemitism releases statement on Ruth Posner's death

On September 25, a campaign against Antisemitism released a statement on Holocaust survivor Ruth Posner's death, noting,

"We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of Ruth Posner BEM, Holocaust survivor and educator, and her husband Michael. Thank you, Ruth. You were an inspiration and a hining example of how to use one's voice for good in this world. You will be greatly missed. May their memories be a blessing."

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Ruth, who escaped the Holocaust under a false name with her aunt, hid with a Catholic family, only to be taken prisoner during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The Germans then put her on a train, which ended up in the town of Essen, where she hid in a local farm until the end of the war.

After the war, at just 16, Ruth moved to the UK and stayed in a hostel with other refugees. She continued her education, attending school and then college for three years, where she honed her skills in dance and drama.

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