According to historian Jonathan Ned Katz, ‘Ruth Peter Worth' was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who left Germany on November 16, 1938 and moved to Paris with her mother following the November 9th and 10th, 1938 Nazi organized ‘Crystal Night’ attack against Jews and Jewish businesses. 

Her German passport was stamped “J” for Jewish. 

Peter Worth reported to anthropologist  Esther Newton that Peter and her mother were interned in a French internment camp called Gurs. Conditions in Gurs were harsh with limited protection from the cold and rain.  Food was scarce and occupants slept on sacks of straw in crowded conditions. Peter told Esther Newton that she had a flirtation with one of the guards who helped them escape from this french internment camp.  

In 1941 "Ruth Peter Worth" is listed in the U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes as applying for citizenship. 

According to historian Jonathan Ned Katz, "the inclusion of the male name “Peter" on her "Naturalization Record" was an extraordinary act of resistance that asserted her lesbian orientation, in coded form, in the face of severe state, institutional and cultural sanctions that constituted lesbianism as “unnatural’". 

Peter and her mother settled in NYC with Peter finding her way to Cherry Grove shortly there after.

In 1946 Peter Worth purchased a small house in Cherry Grove on Surf Walk, which was one of the cottages originally floated across the Great South Bay. Peter summered there for many years until her death in 1997. She was known to be a quiet member of the Cherry Grove Community who walked the grove with her beloved miniature poodle “Cherry”.