Haven

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2010

ISBN-13: 9781453258606

<DIV><B>Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber&rsquo;s powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II</B><BR /><BR /> In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt&rsquo;s administration to receive asylum in the United States. All they had to do was get there.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> 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 &ldquo;safe haven&rdquo; camp in Oswego, New York. The dangerous endeavor carried the threat of Nazi capture with each passing day.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> While on the ship, Gruber recorded the refugees&rsquo; 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.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> The result is a poignant and engrossing true story of suffering under Nazi persecution and incredible courage in the face of overwhelming circumstances.<BR /> &#160;</DIV>