50 children
Subtitle: one ordinary American couple's extraordinary rescue mission into the heart of Nazi Germany
By: Steve Pressman ; with an afterword by Paul Shapiro, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harpercollins; Harper
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780062237477
Subjects: Jewish refugees; Rescue; Refugee children; Nazi persecution; Jewish children; World War, 1939-1945; Children; Jews
Other titles: Fifty children
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.