1. Ruth Gruber was an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, and United States government official.
21 Facts About Ruth Gruber
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Ruth Gruber served two years in Alaska as a field representative of the US Department of the Interior.
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Ruth Gruber witnessed the scene at the Port of Haifa when Holocaust survivors on the ship Exodus 1947 were refused entry to British-controlled Palestine, and she documented their deportation back to Germany.
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Ruth Gruber was a recipient of the Norman Mailer Prize.
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Ruth Gruber was born in Brooklyn, New York, one of five children of Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Gussie and David Gruber.
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Ruth Gruber dreamed of becoming a writer and was encouraged by her parents to obtain higher education.
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Ruth Gruber matriculated at New York University at the age of 15.
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In 1946, Ruth Gruber took leave from her federal post to return to journalism.
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Ruth Gruber accompanied UNSCOP as a correspondent for the New York Herald.
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Ruth Gruber witnessed the ship Exodus 1947 entering the Haifa harbor after it was intercepted by the Royal Navy while making an attempt to deliver 4,500 Jewish refugees.
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Out of many journalists from around the world reporting on the affair, Ruth Gruber alone was allowed by the British to accompany the DPs back to Germany.
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Aboard the prison ship Runnymede Park, Ruth Gruber photographed the refugees, confined in a wire cage with barbed wire on top, defiantly raising a Union Jack flag on which they had painted a swastika.
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In 1951, Gruber married Philip H Michaels, a community leader in the South Bronx.
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Ruth Gruber gave birth to two children, one of whom is former Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health David Michaels, and continued her journalistic travels.
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Some years after Philip Michaels' death in 1968, Gruber married longtime New York City Social Services administrator Henry J Rosner in 1974.
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Ruth Gruber received many awards for her writing and humanitarian acts, including the Na'amat Golda Meir Human Rights Award and awards from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance.
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On October 21,2008, Ruth Gruber was honored for her work defending free expression by the National Coalition Against Censorship.
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In 2016, an exhibit of her photographs titled Ruth Gruber: Photojournalist was on display at the Oregon Jewish Museum in Portland.
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In 2009, a documentary film on Ruth Gruber premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Ruth Gruber died at the age of 105 on November 17,2016.
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The exhibition, Ruth Gruber: Photojournalist, curated by Maya Benton, is traveling internationally through 2020.