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US sex therapist Ruth Westheimer, widely known as Dr Ruth and famous for her open and pioneering approach to the subjects of sex and partnership, has died at the age of 96. A psychologist and Holocaust survivor, she died on Friday evening, with her children Miriam and Joel present, her spokesman Pierre Lehu confirmed to dpa. She was born Karola Ruth Siegel into a Jewish family near Frankfurt in 1928 and was taken to Switzerland on a Kindertransport at the age of 10, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. She survived the Holocaust and became a US citizen in 1965, later regaining her Germ…