In 1939, as Hitler's control over Europe intensified, desperate Jewish families in Nazi Germany and Austria sought refuge in the United States, but restrictive immigration policies made escape nearly impossible. Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Philadelphia-based Jewish 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's courageous endeavor in 1939 involved secretly transporting 50 Jewish children from war-torn Vienna to the United States, defying Nazi Germany's oppressive regime.
