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Also appearing in the film are Hal Holbrook as Ickes, Martin Landau as Papa Gruber, Anne Bancroft as Mama Gruber and Bruce Greenwood (JFK in Thirteen Days) as Myles Billingsley Sr., an Oswego resident whose life becomes bound up with those of the refugees. Gruber, still a working writer and author of 15 books, was in grave dan- ger during the vovaae and so was made a temporary- 'simulated" general to give her some protection should she be captured. According to the Geneva Convention, captured military person- nel would have to be kept alive, fed and sheltered. "After all these years, so many peo- ple will learn that America did open its arms to [almost] 1,000 refugees, and they gave back to America every- thing America gave to them and more," says Gruber. The author has been to Detroit many times, most recently for the book fair at the Jewish Community Center and only months before that to address a large Hadassah meeting. "This voyage was one of the best- kept secrets of World War II, and the refugees have since become doctors, scientists, psychologists, business peo- ple and good citizens. One was impor- tant to the development of the CAT scan and the MRI and another to the Polaris Missile. "They called me Mother Ruth, but I think from these 1,000, I must have at least 5,000 or 10,000 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they are wonderful, contributing human beings." During her book fair visit last fall, Gruber visited with the family of Josef Langnas, now living in Southfield. Langnas made the journey with Gruber and had his bar mitzvah at the Oswego camp. "I read the script before shooting began and made a few suggestions," says Gruber, who focused on one scene where the people of Oswego show hostility toward the refugees. "The picture has a lot of courageous confrontation with anti-Semitism, but I pointed out there were many people who were excited about the refugees and showed warmth and hospitality. Some threw shoes and clothes over the fence. A little girl passed her Shirley Temple doll to another little girl who apparently never had a doll in her life. "There were all these acts of kind- ness, so they did put in a scene where two of the refugees climb under the fence, wind up in town and go to a restaurant and order food. When they try to pay, the waiter says, 'No, no. This is on me.' It's a lovely little scene and actually happened." Although Gruber points out that the miniseries keeps the integrity of her book, there were liberties taken for dramatic effect. For instance, Gruber never met one- on-one with President Truman as is shown in the film. In fact, she met with his deputy secretary of state, Dean Acheson, to argue that the refugees should be kept in America. Acheson took her documents to Truman. In other flashback segments, Gruber is depicted as having a passionate affair with a young German, a fellow gradu- ate student, while she studied abroad in Cologne for her doctorate, which she received at age 20, the youngest American at that time to do so. Gruber says the extent of the relation- ship was holding hands; she immedi- ately ended it when she learned of his Nazi leanings. "I made two trips to Canada during the shooting of the miniseries and spent several days there each time," says Gruber, who was raised in a "modern" Orthodox Jewish household in Brooklyn. "My daughter. Celia [Evans], came up with me for the first visit, and they turned her into an • extra, too. We heard many touching stories from other extras who had no idea who we were at the time." Mother and daughter listened intently to why the extras wanted to be part of Haven. One was a survivor. Another had a father killed at Dachau. Gruber, twice widowed, takes pride in her daughter's career in television news production. She also is proud of her son, David Michaels, who served as assistant secretary for environment, safety and health in the Department of Energy during the Clinton adminis- tration. The senior journalist, who was the first foreign correspondent to gain entry to the Soviet Arctic and then spent time working for the