Gruber, Ruth

An autobiography in which journalist and photographer Ruth Gruber tells about her life and career, highlighting some of her adventures as an international correspondent in the Soviet Arctic, in Alaska, aboard a ship transporting Holocaust survivors to the U.S., and as a witness to the arrival of the "Exodus" in Israel. Includes photographs.

The author tells about her experiences in Haifa in 1947 as a foreign correspondent for the "New York Post," where she witnessed the arrival of the ship, Exodus 1947, carrying over 4,500 Holocaust survivors who were attempting to find refuge in Palestine.

For the first time, startling, previously unpublished facts reveal why FDR opened America's doors to one thousand out of thirteen million Holocaust victims--and then kept them in a camp behind barbed wire. Author Ruth Gruber witnessed these refugees' joys and tragedies, resourcefulness and courage--because she lived it.

The author tells about her experiences in Haifa in 1947 as a foreign correspondent for the "New York Post," where she witnessed the arrival of the ship, Exodus 1947, carrying over 4,500 Holocaust survivors who were attempting to find refuge in Palestine.

The story of the 1,000 World War II refugees that FDR suspended the quotos to rescue out of the thirteen million Holocaust victims.

Ruth Gruber, special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, tells about her experiences carrying out a mission to bring one thousand Jewish and Christian refugees from Italy in 1944, and discusses her efforts on their behalf once they arrived in America.

The story of the 1,000 World War II refugees that FDR suspended the quotos to rescue out of the thirteen million Holocaust victims.