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Author Gruber, Ruth, 1911-2016

Title Witness : one of the great foreign correspondents of the twentieth century tells her story / Ruth Gruber ; foreword by Richard Holbrooke.

Publication Info. New York : Schocken Books, [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  070.4 GRU    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xix, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents The soviet arctic / 1935-1936 -- Alaska / 1941-1943 -- World War II and the Oswego refugees / 1944-1946 -- The Anglo-American committee of inquiry on Palestine and the Nuremberg trials / 1946 -- UNSCOP, the Exodus, and prison camps in Cyprus / 1947 -- The birth of Israel and the war of independence / 1947-1948 -- The Yemenite Jews fly to Israel on "Wings of eagles" / 1949 -- Operation Ezra and Nehemiah: 120,000 Iraqi Jews secretly escape to Israel / 1951 -- The ingathering of Jews from Romania, the Soviet Union, and Ethiopia / 1951-1986.
Subject Documentary photography.
Gruber, Ruth, 1911-2016
ISBN 9780805242430
0805242430
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