Haven: The Unknown Story of 1000 World War II Refugees
by Ruth Gruber
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- ISBN 13
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Small Temple Sticker stamp FTP, Name printed top of same page, light toning, else content appears as unread and unblemished with good wraps displaying minor surface/edge wear, as shown, with Taped ID at Heel of spine and lower right torn corner. Spine has been reinforced (taped).
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…
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Synopsis
Ruth Gruber is the author of fifteen books, including Exodus 1947 and Raquela . In 2001, Haven will be the subject of a major network miniseries. Ms. Gruber lives in New York City. Dava Sobel, Ruth Gruber's niece, is the author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter .
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- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5214-72421
- Title
- Haven: The Unknown Story of 1000 World War II Refugees
- Author
- Ruth Gruber
- Book Condition
- Used - Mass Market Paperback, Good Temple X-Library
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Signet Ed 1st Prtg.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0451128656
- ISBN 13
- 9780451128652
- Publisher
- A Signet Book/New American Library
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- April, 1984
- Pages
- 268+
- LCCN
- 82023615
- Keywords
- WW2 Refugees
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