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unusual facts about Ruth Langer


Ruth Langer

Tikva Frymer-Kensky, David Novak, Peter Ochs, David Fox Sandmel, Michael A. Signer (Westview Press, 2000), 189-195, 386-7.


Judith Haspel

Along with fellow swimmers Ruth Langer and Lucie Goldner, she refused to compete at the Berlin Games in protest of Adolf Hitler, stating, "I refuse to enter a contest in a land which so shamefully persecutes my people." This angered Austrian sports authorities who banned her from competition.


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