Ruth and Jack Gruener helped Alan Gratz to tell a fictionalized version of their story in Prisoner B-3087. Gratz's novel goes over the time Jack spent being shuffled from one concentration camp to the next and that Ruth spent in hiding. It highlights the relentless suffering they experienced throughout the second World War. Ruth's new memoir, Out of Hiding, tells the story of what came after.
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.
Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America (With a Foreword by Alan Gratz) (Hardcover)
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.
Survive. At any cost.
10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him.