50 children : one ordinary American couple's extraordinary rescue mission into the heart of Nazi Germany / Steve Pressman ; with an afterword by Paul Shapiro, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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.
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- ISBN: 0062237470
- ISBN: 9780062237477
- Physical Description: xiv, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrated : 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harpercollins, [2014]
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