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Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber’s powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the course 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 america. All they had to do was once get there.
Ruth Gruber, with the toughen 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 “protected haven” camp in Oswego, New York. The dangerous endeavor carried the specter of Nazi capture with each passing day.
At the same time as on the ship, Gruber recorded the refugees’ emotional stories and recounts them here in vivid detail, at the side of the aftermath of their arrival in the United States, 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 implausible courage in the face of overwhelming circumstances.
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 america. All they had to do was once get there.
Ruth Gruber, with the toughen 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 “protected haven” camp in Oswego, New York. The dangerous endeavor carried the specter of Nazi capture with each passing day.
At the same time as on the ship, Gruber recorded the refugees’ emotional stories and recounts them here in vivid detail, at the side of the aftermath of their arrival in the United States, 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 implausible courage in the face of overwhelming circumstances.
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