01923cam a2200385 i 4500 296068896 TxAuBib 20140507120000.0 131021s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2014013972 9780062237477 0062237470 eng rda TxAuBib rda Pressman, Steven, 1955- 50 children [BOOK] : 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. First edition. New York : Harpercollins, [2014] xiv, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs, portraits, facsimilies ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-280) and index. The plan -- The rescue -- New lives. 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. 20140507. Kraus, Gilbert 1897-1975. Kraus, Eleanor 1903-1989. Children Nazi persecution. Jewish refugees United States. Jewish children Austria. Refugee children United States. World War, 1939-1945 Children Austria. World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Austria. Shapiro, Paul, (activist.)