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Ruth GruberWith her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), 95 year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.

Ruth Gruber talks about the battered ship "Exodus" arrving in the port of Haifa

The Exodus

One whole deck was shattered by British warships before it reached Haifa in 1947

Mother holding out her child to be hugged by the photographer, aboard the Runnymede Park

The Exodus refugees on the Runnymede Park painted the swastika on top of the British Union Jack...This became Life magazine's Photo of the Week.

Inside the hold of the Runnymede Park