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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

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: print
    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.
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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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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