50 Children

Name: 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
ISBN: 9780062237477

One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany

Steven Pressman

2014·296 pages·Nonfiction

Biography Historical Fiction

memoir

Based on the 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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