A Remarkable Woman - Ruth Gruber

[windwalker]

I recently came across this obituary of Ruth Gruber who died at age 105. The world needs more people like she.

Acting for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she escorted nearly 1,000 refugees from 19 Nazi-occupied nations to a safe haven in the United States on a perilous trans-Atlantic crossing in 1944. They included the only large contingent of Jews allowed into America during World War II.

Her obit appears in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/nyreg ... -dead.html

[Undaunted]

Yes this story is remarkable so is the story of Roosevelt and the U.S. goverment refusing refuge to almost 1000 fleeing from the Nazis:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/u ... 180957324/

[Alex]

Her son, Hans Gruber, was a different kettle of fish entirely. Quite fittingly, he died a violent and painful death.

[windwalker]

Please provide a link to him. Now I am intrigued.

[Undaunted]

Please provide a link to him. Now I am intrigued.

http://www.businessinsider.com/die-hard ... ory-2016-1