© Ruth Gruber, 1947, Holocaust Survivors, Inside the hold of the Runnymede Park
Ruth Gruber became the youngest PhD in the world before going on to become an international foreign correspondent and photojournalist at age 24. The first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic in 1935, Gruber also traveled to Alaska as a member of the Roosevelt administration in 1942, escorted Holocaust refugees to America in 1944, covered the Nuremberg trials in 1946 and documented the Haganah ship Exodus in 1947. The British sailed the commandeered ship into Haifa port, where its passengers were transferred to three more seaworthy deportation ships, Runnymede Park, Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival.
Read this article (NYT) about the documentary Ahead of Time by Robert Richman.
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"’i am trying here to say something about the despised, the defeated, the alienated. about death and disaster, about the wounded, the crippled, the helpless, the rootless, the dislocated. about finality. about the last ditch.’ ~dorothea lange"
