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In the spring of 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus embarked on a risky and unlikely mission. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, they rescued 50 Jewish children from Vienna and brought them to the United States.
In the spring of 1939, a Philadelphia Jewish lawyer and his wife carried out a bold plan to rescue 50 children from increasingly dangerous Nazi-occupied Vienna. Without official support from the American government and despite stiff resistance from major Jewish organizations, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus traveled into the heart of the Nazi empire ...
8 apr 2013 · In the spring of 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus embarked on a risky and unlikely mission. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, they rescued 50 Jewish children from Vienna and brought them to the United States.
Steven Pressman (director, producer and writer) worked for many years as a newspaper and magazine journalist in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. He was born and raised in Los Angeles and received his undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley. 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus is Steven’s first documentary film.
4 dic 2022 · Trailer 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. & Mrs. Kraus. San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
- 46 sec
- 2,6K
- Jewish Film Institute
11 ott 2022 · Holocaust, Hebrew Shoʾah, Yiddish and Hebrew Ḥurban (“Destruction”), the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi ...
- 74 min
- 909
- Amarillo Public Library
This is an HBO film. Steven Pressman, who is married to Liz Perle--a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus, has made his first movie about Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus of Philadelphia who in January of 1939 decided to attempt the rescue of 50 Jewish children from Austria. This is only months after the Nov 10, 1938 Kristallnacht--Night of Broken Glass. This at a time of fervent anti-Semitism in ...
