RIP: Julia Wasserman

Nine term former state Representative Julia Wasserman, 90, died early Tuesday morning. The Newtown Republican did not seek re-election in 2008, though she kept her oar in public service with a seat on the state Board of Pardon’s and Paroles.

Born in Germany, Julia escaped the Nazis as a girl when a maid in her parents’ home smuggled her into Switzerland not long after Kristallnacht in 1938.

She was a glorious polymath and an original in every way.