Starring Natasha Richardson, Colm Feore, Henry Czerny, Amanda Plummer, Martin Landau and Anne Bancroft, the four-hour miniseries Haven was broadcast on CTV and CBS and is based on the true story of Ruth Gruber.

Gruber was a young Jewish U.S. government official who helped escort almost 1,000 Holocaust survivors from war-torn Europe to Oswego, NY, a so-called temporary haven that was really an internment camp. Feore stars as a vaudeville star from Berlin who was forced to perform in Dachau, and Czerny as a refugee with a mistrust of others. Plummer plays a wife whose relationship with her husband has been strained by the way she managed to save his life.

The story takes place during the Second World War. Gruber takes the refugees on a ship full of wounded U.S. war veterans that is hunted by Nazi planes and U-boats. She battles for the refugees’ right to remain in the U.S. and be granted citizenship, in the process discovering the prejudice of government officials.

Gruber is now in her late eighties and wrote the book – Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How they came to America – which inspired the script by Suzette Couture.

Haven was produced by Alliance Atlantis in association with Paulette Breen Productions, with John Gray directing. It was picked up by the Hallmark Channel for pay television around the world, including Latin America, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Israel and former Soviet territories.