Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America

Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber's powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in...
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Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America by Gruber, Ruth

Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America

$44.24

Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America

$44.24
Author: Ruth Gruber
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber's powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II

In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration to receive asylum in the United States. All they had to do was get there.

Ruth Gruber, with the support of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, volunteered to escort them on their secret route across the Atlantic from a port in Italy to a "safe haven" camp in Oswego, New York. The dangerous endeavor carried the threat of Nazi capture with each passing day.

While on the ship, Gruber recorded the refugees' emotional stories and recounts them here in vivid detail, along with the aftermath of their arrival in the US, which involved a fight for their right to stay after the war ended.

The result is a poignant and engrossing true story of suffering under Nazi persecution and incredible courage in the face of overwhelming circumstances.


Author: Ruth Gruber
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 10/19/2010
Pages: 374
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9781453206331

About the Author
Ruth Gruber (1911-2016) was an award-winning Jewish American journalist, photographer, and humanitarian. Born in Brooklyn in 1911, she was the author of nineteen books, including the National Jewish Book Award-winning biography Raquela (1978). She also wrote several memoirs documenting her astonishing experiences, among them Ahead of Time (1991), Inside of Time (2002), and Haven (1983), which documents her role in the rescue of one thousand refugees from Europe and their safe transport to America. Gruber passed away in 2016 at the age of 105.

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