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Dutch journalist and writer

Renate Ida Rubinstein (16 November &#; 23 November ) was a German-Dutch writer, journalist and columnist.

Biography

Rubinstein was born on 16 November in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother. Following the rise of Nazi Germany, the Rubinstein family decided to leave the country, and fled to Amsterdam, from there on to London, Switzerland and eventually back to Amsterdam again.

Following the Battle of the Netherlands, when Nazi Germany invaded and conquered the Netherlands in , Rubinstein's father was arrested. He was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp near the end of World War II.

This event was a determining factor in Rubinstein's life and work - she is said to have spent the rest of her life searching for a father figure, and her bond with German-British sociologist Norbert Elias has been explained by some as proof for this.^{[citation needed]}

During her teen years Rubinstein was