Pressman, Steven.

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.
Fifty children

xiv, 296 pages :illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

1.Kraus, Eleanor,---1989.2.Kraus, Gilbert,---1975.1.Children--Nazi persecution.2.Children--Rescue operations--Holocaust, 1933-1945.3.Jewish children in the Holocaust.4.Jewish refugees--United States.5.Refugee children--United States.6.World War, 1939-1945--Children--Austria.7.World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Austria.Dynamic Details
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