An educational center for Jewish youths, where they were provided shelter and meals at a boarding school as well, was set up in Frankfurt in 1936. There Ruth completed domestic vocational training from 1937-1938. Additionally, she took private sewing classes. This was intended to ease her emigration from Germany.

In March of 1939, Ruth successfully emigrated to England on a Kindertransport [children’s transport] at the age of 19. She left Germany without her parents, only a few months after the night of the pogrom.