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  title info:
    title: 50 children
    sub title: one ordinary American couple's extraordinary rescue mission into the heart of Nazi Germany
  title info:
    title: Fifty children
  title info:
    title: 50 children (Television program)
  name:
    name part: Pressman, Steven
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Shapiro, Paul A.
    role:
      role term: writer of afterword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple 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. In early 1939, America's rigid immigration laws made it virtually impossible for European Jews to seek safe haven in the United States. As deep-seated anti-Semitism and isolationism gripped much of the country, neither President Roosevelt nor Congress rallied to their aid. Yet one brave Jewish couple from Philadelphia refused to silently stand by. Risking their own safety, Gilbert Kraus, a successful lawyer, and his stylish wife, Eleanor, traveled to Nazi-controlled Vienna and Berlin to save fifty Jewish children. Steven Pressman brought the Kraus's rescue mission to life in his acclaimed HBO documentary, 50 Children. In this book, he expands upon the story related in the hour-long film, offering additional historical detail and context to offer a rich, full portrait of this ordinary couple and their extraordinary actions. Drawing from Eleanor Kraus's unpublished memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with more than a dozen of the surviving children, and illustrated with period photographs, archival materials, and memorabilia, 50 Children is a remarkable tale of personal courage and triumphant heroism that offers a fresh, unique insight into a critical period of history.
  table of contents: The plan -- The rescue -- New lives.
  note: Steven Pressman ; with an afterword by Paul Shapiro, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-au---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Children
    geographic: Austria
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Jews
    topic: Rescue
    geographic: Austria
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kraus, Gilbert
      name part: -1975
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kraus, Eleanor
      name part: -1989
  subject:
    topic: Children
    topic: Nazi persecution
  subject:
    topic: Jewish children
    geographic: Austria
  subject:
    topic: Refugee children
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Jewish refugees
    geographic: United States
  classification: D810.C4 P74 2014
  classification: 940.53/183509436
  identifier: 9780062237477 :
  identifier: 0062237470
  record info:
    record content source: TXB
    record creation date: 140416
    record change date: 20140530125610.0
    record identifier: in00003456567
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng