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Ruth Posner (born 20 April 1933 as Ruth Wajsberg) is a Polish Holocaust survivor,〔(USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Ruth Posner )〕 former dancer and choreographer and is today an actress and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Born in Warsaw in Poland and an only child, her father was a non-observant Polish Jew who had been a local government official before World War II during which she and her parents were sent to the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942 her father arranged for his 9-year-old daughter and her aunt to go to work at a Jewish-owned leather factory outside the ghetto walls, and from here they both escaped. Posner survived the remainder of the war by pretending to be a young Polish Catholic girl called Irena Slabowska. She was aided in this deception by the fact that she and her parents had always spoken Polish together rather than Yiddish. It is believed that her parents were killed in Treblinka. Arriving in the United Kingdom as a refugee at the end of World War II, she married Michael S. Posner in 1950. In the 1950s she became a dancer and choreographer with the London Contemporary Dance School. When in the early 1970s her husband went to New York to work for UNICEF Posner went with him and taught Physical Theatre at the Juilliard School in New York, and Brandeis University in Boston. During her nine years in the United States she trained as an actor with Uta Hagen, and gained an MA in Theatre Arts at Hunter College in 1980.〔Posner, Ruth ''Bits and Pieces of My Life'' R & MSP Publishing (2012) ISBN 9781471771514〕 On returning to London she taught Physical Theatre at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and the Central School of Speech and Drama.〔(Posner's profile on the London Contemporary Dance School website )〕 Later she concentrated on an acting career, and on television she appeared in ''Making News'' (1990), ''Love Hurts'' (1994), ''The Ruth Rendell Mysteries'' (1995), ''Bramwell'' (1997), ''To Anyone Who Can Hear Me'' (1999), ''Casualty'' (1987-2003), ''The Bill'' (2003), ''Coming Up for Air'' (2003), ''Timeless'' (2005), ''Apparitions'' (2008), ''The Pharmacist'' (2012), and ''Count Arthur Strong'' (2013).〔(Posner on the Internet Movie Database )〕 Her film appearances include ''Leon the Pig Farmer'' (1992),〔 ''Do I Love You?'' (2002) and ''The Football Factory'' (2004).〔( Posner on the Russian Theatre Festival 2010 website )〕 Stage roles include ''Hiawatha'' at the Bristol Old Vic (1991–92), ''The Dybbuk'' for the Royal Shakespeare Company (1992), ''The Tempest'' with the Actors Touring Company (1999), ''Woman in the Moon'' at the Arcola Theatre (2001), ''Ritual in Blood'' at the Nottingham Playhouse (2001) and ''Seven Jewish Children'' (2009) at the Royal Court Theatre.〔(Posner's official website )〕〔(''Hiawatha'' Posner's theatre credits on the Theatricalia website )〕 She speaks Polish, German, Italian and Hebrew.〔 ==Early life== Ruth Posner was born on 20 April 1933 in Warsaw, Poland. Ruth was an only child to a non-observant polish Jew. Her father was a local government official before World War II. In 1942 her father arranged for his 9-year-old daughter and her aunt to go to work at a Jewish-owned leather factory outside the ghetto walls, and from here they both escaped. Posner survived the remainder of the war by pretending to be a young Polish Catholic girl called Irena Slabowska. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruth Posner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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