50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus (2013)

Directed by

Steven Pressman

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 02m

Rated

12

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells how a Jewish couple from Philadelphia traveled to Nazi Germany in 1939 to rescue Jewish children from Vienna. They brought the children to new homes in Philadelphia, and the film includes interviews with those who were saved.

inspiringsomberhistoricalintimatehopefultenderinformativequietly heroic

What happens

50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus, originally known as To Save a Life, is a 2013 documentary film written, produced, and directed by Steven Pressman. It was first shown on HBO in April 2013. The film tells the story of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia who traveled to Nazi Germany in 1939 and, with the help of the B'rith Sholom fraternal organization, saved Jewish children in Vienna from likely death in the Holocaust by finding them new homes in Philadelphia. The Krauses were the grandparents of Pressman's wife, Liz Perle, and the film is based on the manuscript of a memoir left behind by Eleanor Kraus when she died in 1989. The documentary, which premiered on HBO in 2013 on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, was narrated by Mamie Gummer and Alan Alda. Some of those who were rescued were interviewed for the film. Aged from five to fourteen, they were senior citizens living in the United States and Israel when the film was made. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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