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Article: Champion of refugees of Holocaust honored
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 17, 1995
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To 982 refugees from the Holocaust she escorted across the
Atlantic to an American haven 50 years ago, she was "Mother Ruth."
"Without Ruth Gruber, we would simply not be here," said Tina
Chernick-Jordan of Cranston, R.I., 73, who came with Gruber aboard an
American troop ship. "Ruth was the one who fought for this trip.
Many of us, having fled terrible situations in our homelands at
Hitler's hands, were apprehensive about what awaited us."
Denise Battat of West Newton is grateful to Gruber for helping
bring her late mother to this country. To this day, Battat treasures
an autograph from Eleanor Roosevelt, which her mother received when
the wife of the president visited them in a temporary ...