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WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

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Series 14, Episode 10 – Ruby Wax

Comedian, actress and author Ruby Wax lives in London with her husband, but was born and raised an only child in the United States.  Her parents, Edmund Wachs and Berta (nee Goldmann) left Vienna, Austria in the 1930s on the eve of World War Two and settled in Chicago. [In the US, Ruby’s father later changed the spelling of the family surname to Wax.] “They were fleeing because they were Jewish and they took the war with them and brought it to our kitchen.  Then, finally, when I was 18, I came to London because I needed safety.  They escaped out of Europe and I escaped back into it again.”