“Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make a world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world.” Ruth Gruber
American Jewish journalist Ruth Gruber arrives in New York harbor with 984 refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, which concluded her secret mission to escort the refugees from Italy to America.
Ruth Gruber was an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, and a United States government official. At age twenty, she was the youngest Ph.D. in the world.
- Ruth Gruber | Photojournalist International Center of Photography: https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/ruth-gruber-photojournalist
- Ruth Gruber | Jewish Women’s Archive: https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gruber-ruth
- Ruth Gruber | Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ruth-Gruber/e/B001H6QHIA
- Ruth Gruber | Quotes: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/820126
- Ruth Gruber – The Movie | Real Inheritance Films and Vitagraph: http://www.aheadoftimethemovie.com
Articles:
- “Ruth Gruber finds haven for 1,000 Holocaust Refugees” | Jewish Women’s Archive: https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/03/1944/ruth-gruber
- “Women of Photos and Firsts, Ruth Gruber at 100” | NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/10/15/141325143/a-woman-of-photos-and-firsts-ruth-gruber-at-100
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