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Books : Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to AmericaIn association with Amazon.comby: Ruth Gruber  List Price: $14.00 Price: $4.95 You Save: $9.05 (65%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5308691 EAN: 9780812933017 ISBN: 081293301X Label: Three Rivers Press Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: June 13, 2000 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Release Date: June 13, 2000 Studio: Three Rivers Press Sales Rank: 495705 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Basis for the CBS Mini-series Starring Natasha Richardson. "The words leaped at me from The Washington Post. 'I have decided,' President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced, 'that approximately 1,000 refugees should be immediately brought from Italy to this country.' One thousand refugees....For years, refugees knocking on the doors of American consulates abroad had been told, 'You cannot enter America. The quotas are filled.' And, while the quotas remained untouchable ... millions died." With this mixture of desperation and hope, Ruth Gruber begins Haven, the inspiring story of one thousand Jewish and Christian refugees brought to sanctuary in America in 1944. As special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Gruber was selected to carry out this top-secret mission despite the objections of military brass who doubted the thirty-three-year-old woman's qualifications. When Gruber met the gaunt survivors, they told her about hiding in sewers and forests, of risking their lives to save others. As she wrote down their stories, tears often wiped out the words in her notebook. Gruber became the refugees' guardian angel during the dangerous crossing of the U-boat-haunted Atlantic, and during their eighteen-month internment at a former army camp in Oswego, New York. Lobbying Congress at the end of the war, she also helped the refugees become American citizens. This edition concludes with a new chapter featuring Gruber's look back on her many decades as a crusading journalist, and a special Appendix from the 1946 Congressional Record listing the names of all the camp's residents. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Interesting, Moving, Well WrittenRuth Gruber describes her journey accompanying 1,000 Jewish and Christian refugees who are brought from Italy to American and saved from the Nazis during the Holocaust. She recounts many of their amazing and moving stories of survival as well as the difficulties during their journey. I thought her account was very interesting, what an exciting life Ms. Gruber has led. Though this book centers around the journey involving the 1,000 was refugees I thought it was really about Ruth Gruber ... Read More Rating:  - A story of rescue This is the story of the rescue of one- thousand Jewish refugees from the death they would have suffered at the hands of the Nazis. It is written by an American- born woman Ruth Gruber who was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes to accompany the refugees and help them wherever possible. Gruber who already was a known writer and photojournalist proved to be a lion- hearted defender of the refugees. In part it was her work which made it possible for them to stay in the United States ... Read More Rating:  - Best way to get negative feedback?Be critical of something that is politically, rather than artistically, correct. This is not a bad book. But it is not as wonderful is described. Though she tries to build a sense of uncertainty, we know they get to stay. So the suspense is phony. The endless name-dropping and self-congratulation are wearying and add little. (When I was having lunch with Golda...OK, enough!) But the interesting aspect of this story is the battle between law and guts. When the law says one thing, but the ... Read More Rating: - Excellent book!Gripping retelling by Ms. Gruber, who shepharded nearly 1000 refugees from Italy on the Liberty ship, the Henry Gibbons. Afterward, the refugees set up at a camp called Camp Oswego, near Lake Ontario in New York. At the war's end, the refugees are supposed to go home to their native lands, but Ms. Gruber lobbies everyone in the US government that will listen to her to let them stay. At long last, they are free. Their stories of persecution and heartbreak will bring tears to your ... Read More Rating: - Incredible author writing about difficult topic!Ruth Gruber writes with the same poise with which she speaks, from the heart! The simplicity of her text somehow magically draws one into the times about which she writes. She writes about difficult subjects yet it is impossible to put down her books. I've been devouring them all. Browse for similar items by category:
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