Ruth Gruber discusses the rise of Nazi Germany at KWH

A Conversation with Ruth Gruber at the Kelly Writers House, April 14, 2011.

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Ruth Gruber is an award-winning Jewish American journalist, photographer, and humanitarian. She was born in Brooklyn in 1911 and is the author of nineteen books, including the National Jewish Book Award-winning biography Raquela (1978) and Witness (2007), a chronicle of her 80-year career as a correspondent and photojournalist, during which time she covered such events as the rise of Nazi Germany. She is the subject of a new documentary, Ahead of Time, which premiered last fall.