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. All they had to do was get there. Ruth Gruber; with the support of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes; volunteered to escort them on their secret route across the Atlantic from a port in Italy to a “safe haven†camp in Oswego; New York. The dangerous endeavor carried the threat of Nazi capture with each passing day. While on the ship; Gruber recorded the refugees’ emotional stories and recounts them here in vivid detail; along with the aftermath of their arrival in the US; which involved a fight for their right to stay after the war ended. The result is a poignant and engrossing true story of suffering under Nazi persecution and incredible courage in the face of overwhelming circumstances.
#1711287 in Books Whitley Press 2011-04-20Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x 1.66 x 5.51l; 2.07 #File Name: 1447403673756 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. TRUTHBy j sVery helpful in my search for the truth0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy MonicaGood item5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. First World EmpireBy Kindle CustomerUntil one day ago I was unfamiliar with Waddell's theories. I have been following David Rohl; whose next effort was to have been a book tracing the Black Headed Ones who came from the east and conquered Egypt and left many rock drawings in what is now the eastern desert. Waddell provides the answer--they came not from Sumer or Babylon; but from the Indus Valley; where the crown prince leading the expedition to Egypt had been holding a co-regency; but intended to rule Egypt in his own right. Not clear on whether he had attempted to rule the Indus region and was in flight. I did not find the book racist; altho the author talks about Aryan-Nordic rulers. The Indus region with its pre-Harappan culture is considered the birthplace of Aryan peoples. I'm not clear if the author meant for Nordic races to be the same as Aryan. But even the Bible indicates that warlike peoples came from the East--to me; that agrees with the Indus civilization. This is not a book about the origins of the Aryan civilization; however; but it essays to show that those warlike Sumerians conquered the entire world; from the Indus to Egypt; and ruled in a way that allowed them to maintain rulership for several generations. The author uses linguistics; royal seals; King-Lists; and Indian and Sumerian/Babylonian historical documents reporting the exact same events to back his theories convincingly.I found this book in an online search to find out if the Biblical Nimrod was Sargon the ruler; as someone tried to tell me. I'm not sure this particular book is any proof of that; especially since Nimrod was a black man; but it certainly offers a lot of interesting detail about what was probably the first generations-lasting world empire. The author notes that this empire eventually broke up as citizens revolted; perhaps in anticipation of the high king's death; just as all of them seem to do. Not an easy read; but quite fascinating and has a number of supporting books by this author on the same theme; including a dictionary. Hope to read more.
