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Pressman, Steven.
Subjects
Kraus, Gilbert, -1975.
Kraus, Eleanor, -1989.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Austria.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Austria.
Children -- Nazi persecution.
Jewish children -- Austria.
Refugee children -- United States.
Jewish refugees -- United States.
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Pressman, Steven.
Kraus, Gilbert, -1975.
Kraus, Eleanor, -1989.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Austria.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Austria.
Children -- Nazi persecution.
Jewish children -- Austria.
Refugee children -- United States.
Jewish refugees -- United States.
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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.
by
Pressman, Steven.
Harpercollins, [2014]
Call #:
940.531835 P935f
Subjects
Kraus, Gilbert, -1975.
Kraus, Eleanor, -1989.
World War, 1939-1945
--
Children
--
Austria.
World War, 1939-1945
--
Jews
--
Rescue
--
Austria.
Children
--
Nazi persecution.
Jewish
children
--
Austria.
Refugee children
--
United
States
.
Jewish
refugees
--
United
States
.
ISBN:
9780062237477 (hc.)
0062237470 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Fifty children : one ordinary American couple's extraordinary rescue mission into the heart of Nazi Germany
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xiv, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs, portraits, facsimilies ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-280) and index.
Contents:
The plan
--
The rescue
--
New lives.
Summary:
"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. Steven Pressman is the writer, director, and producer of the 2013 HBO documentary film '50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus."
Other authors:
Shapiro, Paul.
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