Ruby Wax
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Podcast Appearances
Bertha, it's not real fur.
It's fake.
It's Fox!
Anyway, these people who got her out of Austria wouldn't speak to them because they claimed her coat was fake.
So I didn't know about any relatives.
So they take me to Austria, and then they show me my dad's prison.
And he told me he was an aerobics teacher.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, he was the one who said, told everybody to jump, you know, to keep the noise up so that they could sneak things in and out.
Yeah, he did.
And then the Nazis would come in and they'd say, jump like rabbits, you know, and humiliate them.
But one of them really liked my dad.
So when they were digging ditches, he stood in front of him so my dad could stretch his back.
And then he sent covert notes between my dad and my mother.
They were starting a business and he got caught and he was shot.
And I have some of the postcards.
They're speaking in code because they wanted to have a business.
Anyway, then I had a relative called Max.
My mother never mentioned because my son is called Max.
And she could have said coincidence.