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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Maira Butt

Holocaust survivor and husband ‘emailed loved ones to announce suicide’

Polish holocaust survivor Ruth Posner (Kirsty O’Connor/PA) - (PA Archive)

A Holocaust survivor and her husband emailed friends and family to tell them they had decided to die by suicide after feeling they were “not living but existing”.

Ruth Posner, 96, and her partner Michael, 97, scheduled the message to send to loved ones after they had died at a Swiss clinic on Tuesday.

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