Haven: The Unknown Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees
| Author | Ruth Gruber |
| Publication information | Coward-McMann, 1983 (E-edition, June 13, 2000), 352 pages |
Narrative
in 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt decided to admit 1,000 war refugees to the United States, Ruth Gruber, the Secretary of the Interior’s special assistant, volunteered, with Ickes' support, to accompany the group from Europe to their camp in Oswego.
Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America is a first-hand account of the transport of the refugees to the United States, their internment at Fort Ontario, and the political wranglings regarding their fate.
Ruth Gruber's tale of that journey and its aftermath has long been out of print; this revised and enlarged edition coincides with a CBS miniseries on the subject to be broadcast in May, 2000.
Haven: The Unknown Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees follows a cast of characters from their sea journey to Fort Ontario in upstate New York, to the battle in Congress to allow these refugees to remain in the United States once the war was over