Rita J. Kuhn

Dr. Rita Jenny Kuhn was born on November 29, 1927, in Berlin, Germany, of Jewish parents, Fritz and Frieda Kuhn. Determined to complete her education, she emigrated to America after WWII in 1948. Rita married in 1951 and had four children. She received her Master’s Degree in Classics at Cornell University in 1963.

After her divorce in 1965, Rita raised her four children as a single mother, while also attending graduate school and receiving her Doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. She also spent twelve years as a tutor for disadvantaged children at Berkeley High School.

She shared her story of survival with high school students throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from 1985 to 2015. In 2013, she published her memoir Broken Glass, Broken Lives: A Jewish Girl’s Survival Story in Berlin, 1933-1945. Rita is a proud mother and grandmother and lives in Berkeley, California.

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