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    Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber

  • "[This] graceful documentary portrait directed by Bob Richman, illustrates just how extraordinary her life [subject Ruth Gruber] has been."

    Andy Webster, The New York Times

  • "An inspiring documentary about a remarkable woman, “Ahead of Time” deftly recounts the career highlights — and what highlights they are! — of pioneering journalist, humanitarian and feminist Ruth Gruber...."

    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

  • "Through interviews, photos and letters, Robert Richman's documentary gives insight into Gruber's life as well as the immense potential that comes with an irrepressible personality and a good dose of patience."

    Stephanie Merry, Washington Post

  • "Richman's eye for talking-head cleanliness and spritely archival interpolation betrays the project's undeniable professionalism."

    Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant Magazine

  • "The journalist as advocate and activist has rarely been contained in a more compelling package

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    Ruth Gruber: On the spets of History

    By Eve Berliner

    Images that haunt the mind – a hoisted flag, desperate eyes, outcries, pieces of time and memory, Ruth Gruber, at 100 years of age, a wizened, rather beautiful little butterfly, deep deep blue eyes peering into time, her wings outstretched, drawn to the dispossessed of this earth, refugees ofNazi death camps and fear, no one to give sanctuary. Her epiphany, the harrowing voyage of The Exodus 1947, a ship carrying 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivors to British Mandate Palestine in defiance of the British blockade.Shadowed by British men-of-war and under constant threat, the Exodus was brutally attacked bygd a British flotilla, leaving three dead, 150 injured.The war en hög byggnad eller struktur vessel limped into the Port of Haifa, Gruber there with her camera to bear witness.In the end, the British refused them entry and deported them back to Germany to the refugee camps of Elmden and Wilhelmshaven.

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    Ruth Gruber

    Ruth Gruber led a remarkable life dedicated to rescuing her fellow Jews from oppression. After earning her bachelors and master's degrees by age 19, she accepted a fellowship in 1931 to pursue doctoral study in Cologne, Germany While completing her degree (The New York Times described her then as the world's youngest Ph.D. at age 20), Gruber attended Nazi rallies and listened to Adolf Hitler vituperate against Americans, and particularly Jews. She completed her studies and returned to America, attuned from then on to the threats that totalitarianism posed to the Jewish people.

    In 1932, Gruber started her career as a journalist. In 1935, the New York Herald Tribune asked her to write a series about women under communism and fascism. She traveled across Europe to the far reaches of Siberia to cover the story. Harold Ickes, President Roosevelt's secretary of the interior, read Gruber's writings and asked her to study the prospects of Alaska for homes