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Ruth Baron, a Jewish hero of WWII, has sadly passed away at the age of 99. Ruth was the member of a highly secret unit of the British Royal Navy that used Alan Turing's Bombe machines to crack Nazi ciphers. The Nazis had machines called Enigmas, which they used to communicate with extensively. The machines would turn messages into a cipher, meaning they didn't have to fear enemy units listening in. That's where Ruth and the Bombe machine came in. For 8-hour shifts, Ruth would operate a Bombe machine, decrypting messages that the Nazis were sending each other as they came in. Her work was able to significantly shorten the war, and countless Jews on the brink of death at concentration camps were able to be saved. May her memory be a blessing.