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50 Children : One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany Cover Image Book Book

50 Children : One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany / Steven Pressman ; with an afterword by Paul Shapiro, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Pressman, Steven. (Author). Shapiro, Paul. (Added Author). Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Added Author).

Summary:

Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939 -- the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States during a time when deep-seated anti-Semitism and isolationism gripped much of the country.

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  • ISBN: 9780062237477 (hardback) :
  • Physical Description: xiv, 296 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Harper, [2014]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Subject: Kraus, Eleanor, -1989.
Kraus, Gilbert, -1975.
Children > Nazi persecution.
Children > Rescue operations > Holocaust, 1933-1945.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Jewish refugees > United States.
Refugee children > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Children > Austria.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Austria.

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