Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey to America (with a Foreword by Alan Gratz)
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Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey to America (with a Foreword by Alan Gratz) by Ruth Gruener
With a foreword by Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee.Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just begun.In war-ravaged Europe, they waited for paperwork for a chance to come to America. Once they arrived in Brooklyn, they began to build a new life, but spoke little English. Ruth started at a new school and tried to make friends -- but continued to fight nightmares and flashbacks of her time during World War II.The family's perseverance is a classic story of the American dream, but also illustrates the difficulties that millions of immigrants face in the aftermath of trauma.This is a gripping and human account of a survivor's journey forward with timely connections to refugee and immigrant experiences worldwide today.Ruth Gruener was born in Poland in the 1930s as Aurelia Gamser. Ruth and her parents hid in the homes of gentile family during the Holocaust. Ruth and her family immigrated to the United States after WWII, where Ruth attempted to start a normal adolescent life in Brooklyn. Ruth married another Holocaust survivor, Jack Gruener, with whom she lived in Brooklyn until Jack's death in 2017. They are the parents of two children and the grandparents of four grandkids. Ruth works as a docent at the Museum of Jewish History in Manhattan and speaks to schools all across the country about her and Jack's Holocaust experiences.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781338627459 |
| ISBN 10 | 1338627457 |
| Title | Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey to America (with a Foreword by Alan Gratz) |
| Author | Ruth Gruener |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Scholastic US |
| Year published | 2020-10-20 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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