Quotes from Ruth Gruber

Meanwhile, the mufti and his followers sat back, watching the war between Britain and the Jews with satisfaction.

Children of fourteen were almost always sent, by the infamous Dr. Mengele, directly to the gas chambers.

Twenty months. Six thousand dead. One out of every ten Jews dead on the battlefield. The nation born—like all births—in blood.

Again the desert, unpeopled, limitless, empty to the horizon.