Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber\'s powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European Refugees in the midst of World War II In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish Refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt\'s administration to receive asylum in the United States.
Ruth Gruber, with the support of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, volunteered to.
All They had to do was get there.
Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber\'s powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European Refugees in the midst of World War II In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish Refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt\'s administration to receive asylum in the United States
