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

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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0451128656
ISBN-13
9780451128652
eBay Product ID (ePID)
116062893

Product Key Features

Book Title
Haven : the Dramatic Story of 1000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1984
Topic
Military / World War II
Genre
History
Author
Ruth Gruber
Format
Mass Market

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Item Length
5 in
Item Width
7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
940.5/3/08691
Synopsis
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.

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