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Westheimer was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to a Jewish family. During World War II, she was sent without her parents to Switzerland when she was ten years old. In 1945, she learned that her parents had perished in the Holocaust, most likely at the Auschwitz concentration camp. She decided to immigrate to Israel where she joined the Haganah in Jerusalem. Despite her diminutive height of 4 feet 7 inches, she was trained as a sniper. Westheimer was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and it was several months before she was able to walk again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Westheimer
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Westheimer was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to a Jewish family. During World War II, she was sent without her parents to Switzerland when she was ten years old. In 1945, she learned that her parents had perished in the Holocaust, most likely at the Auschwitz concentration camp. She decided to immigrate to Israel where she joined the Haganah in Jerusalem. Despite her diminutive height of 4 feet 7 inches, she was trained as a sniper. Westheimer was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and it was several months before she was able to walk again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Westheimer
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