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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.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062237477
  • Physical Description: xiv, 296 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N. Y. : HarperCollins, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Illustrated endpapers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, etc.:
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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Subject: World War, 1939-1945 > Children > Austria.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Austria.
Kraus, Gilbert, -1975.
Kraus, Eleanor, -1989.
Children > Nazi persecution.
Jewish children > Austria.
Refugee children > United States.
Jewish refugees > United States.

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