Ruth Wiseman graduated from U.C. Davis in 1992 with a B.A. in International Relations and Russian. She spent a year in post-Communist Russia from 1992-1993, interviewing Jews who were born in pre-revolutionary times. Upon returning to the States, she was an interviewer for the San Francisco Holocaust Oral History Project and the USC Shoah Foundation. She conducted more than four dozen interviews in Russian and English.

Ruth is the daughter of the late Dr. Rita Jenny Kuhn, a Shoah survivor from Berlin, Germany. Dr. Kuhn was detained at Rosenstrasse in February 1943 and was released through the brave efforts of the women who protested the arrests.

Ruth is the author of How the Moon Became Dim (Saturn’s Moon Press, 2017). She is working on a version of the Rosenstrasse Protest for children, as well as several other stories. She is published in Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance in the Holocaust, and is carrying on her mother’s story of survival to future generations. Ruth currently lives in New Jersey with her two daughters, three felines, and one gecko.