Zeva Oelbaum, Producer

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About the Filmmaker

Zeva Oelbaum is an award winning producer and the founder of Reel Inheritance Films, a documentary film production company. She directed and produced a short film on Ruth Gruber, before producing the feature-length film. She was executive producer of Rene and I, a feature length documentary on twins Irene Hizme and Rene Slotkin who were six years old when they survived Josef Mengele at Auschwitz.

About the Film

Born in Brooklyn in 1911, Ruth Gruber defied tradition from the moment she became the world’s youngest PhD at the age of 20 in 1931. She went on to become the eyes and conscience of the world as a journalist, photo-journalist and member of the Roosevelt administration. The first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic in 1935, Ruth traveled to Alaska for the U.S. Dept of Interior in 1942, and was chosen to escort 1000 Holocaust refugees to America in 1944. Ruth turns 100 years old in October 2011 and the film reveals that her trail-blazing spirit and moxie are still inspiring to this day.

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