Ruth Gruber

Haven

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781453206331
• ISBN-10: 1453206337
• Artikelnr.: 34663456

Autorenporträt

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.