Actress and dancer Ruth Posner, 96, died via assisted suicide on Sept. 26. Born in Warsaw, she and her family were shipped to the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. She managed to escape (her family all died), disguising herself as a Polish Catholic. After the war, Posner became a dancer and choreographer with the London Contemporary Dance School, and later in life branched out into acting. She appeared in such (mostly British) TV shows and movies as Making News, Leon the Pig Farmer, Love Hurts, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Bramwell, The Bill, Almost Strangers, Timeless, The Pharmacist, Casualty, and The Carer. Posner was awarded the Order of the British Empire Medal in the 2022 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Holocaust Education and Awareness. She and her husband, Michael Posner, died at a Swiss clinic together, telling their family, “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. 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.”
