While she was interned in camp Westerbork, Ruth Pagener was a member of the "Westerbork Girls", a group of dancers that performed in the cabarets staged in the camp in 1943.
Katja B. Zaich, "Ich bitte dringend um ein Happyend." Deutsche Bühnenkünstler im niederländischen Exil 1933-1945, (Frankfurt am Main, 2001), 186.