50 children : one ordinary American couple's extraordinary rescue mission into the heart of Nazi Germany
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper, 2014.
Physical Description
xiv, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 > Children > Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Austria.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Children > Nazi persecution.
- Jewish children > Austria.
- Refugee children > United States.
- Jewish refugees > United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Austria.
- Kraus, Gilbert, -1975.
- Kraus, Eleanor, -1989.