gruber, ruth

"Ruth Gruber, born in to a Jewish American family in 1911, was drawn to adventure and driven to fight injustice throughout her eventful seven-decade career as a journalist"--.

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 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.