RUTH GRUBER PHOTOGRAPHY

Ruth Gruber was born in 1911. She received a B.A. from New York University in three years, a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin a year later, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne (magna cum laude) one year after that, becoming at age twenty the youngest Ph.D. in the world.
At age twenty-four, she became a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and served in that role from 1935 to 1967. It was in this capacity when at age thirty-three, FDR's secretary of the interior, Harold L. Ickes, assigned her a secret mission that would transform her life: Gruber escorted 1,000 Holocaust survivors from Italy to America, the only Jews given refuge in this country during the war.
During her thirty-two years as a correspondent, Ruth Gruber photographed what she saw and captured the triumph of the human spirit. In 1998, Gruber received a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She is the author of nineteen books, including I Went to the Soviet Arctic, Destination Palestine, Haven, and Ahead of Time. She lives in New York City.

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