As Nazi control over Europe tightened in 1939, Jewish families in Germany and Austria grew desperate to escape. In the US, strict immigration policies made it nearly impossible for Jews to find refuge. Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Philadelphia couple, defied the odds to rescue 50 Jewish children from Vienna, bringing them to safety in America just before the Holocaust.
50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus
The Kraus family risked everything to secretly transport 50 Jewish children from Vienna to America, defying the Nazi regime's tyranny in 1939.
