--- title: Carol Ruff | TIME description: Carol Ruff is co-producer of the documentary film 50 Years of Silence, based on her mother's memoir of the same name. canonical: https://time.com/author/carol-ruff/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/carol-ruff/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Carol Ruff ## Carol Ruff _Carol Ruff is co-producer of the_ _documentary film_ [50 Years of Silence](http://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/617/fifty-years-of-silence.html)_, based on her mother's_ [_memoir_](http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Years-silence-Jan-Ruff-OHerne/dp/8184981260/ref=sr%5F1%5F3) _of the same name._ ## Carol Ruff *  Dec 29, 2015 ### ['Comfort Women' Have Waited a Long Time for an Apology](https://time.com/4162815/comfort-women-sex-slavery/) My 93-year-old mother was forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during World War II. She has wa... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/carol-ruff/","name":"Carol Ruff"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/carol-ruff/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/carol-ruff/"},"name":"Carol Ruff","jobTitle":null,"description":"Carol Ruff is co-producer of the documentary film 50 Years of Silence, based on her mother's memoir of the same name.","url":"https://time.com/author/carol-ruff/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```