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When much of the world closed its eyes to the terrors of Nazi Germany, one American couple risked everything to save Jewish children from an unimaginable fate.
50 CHILDREN: THE RESCUE MISSION OF MR. AND MRS. KRAUS tells the dramatic, previously untold story of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia who followed their conscience, traveling to Nazi-controlled Vienna in spring 1939 to save a group of children. Amidst the impending horrors of the Holocaust, they put themselves in harm’s way to bring what would become the single largest-known group of children allowed into the U.S. during that time.
Several years before he began filming in 2010, first-time filmmaker Steven Pressman received Eleanor Kraus’ unpublished memoir from his wife, Liz Perle, who was the Krauses’ granddaughter. Written decades earlier, the manuscript spelled out in rich detail the Krauses’ amazing mission.
Original Release
04/08/2013
US Release
08/04/2013
Cast
Name | Character |
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Alan Alda | Narrator / Narrator (voice) |
Mamie Gummer | Eleanor Kraus / Eleanor Kraus (voice) |
Liz Perle | Self - grandchild of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus |
Paul Shapiro | Self - director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies |
Robert Braun | Self |
Henny Wenkart | Self |
Paul Beller | Self |
Helga Milberg | Self |
Jonathan Sarna | Self - professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University |
Kurt Herman | Self |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Alan Alda | Narrator / Narrator (voice) |
Mamie Gummer | Eleanor Kraus / Eleanor Kraus (voice) |
Liz Perle | Self - grandchild of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus |
Paul Shapiro | Self - director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies |
Robert Braun | Self |
Henny Wenkart | Self |
Paul Beller | Self |
Helga Milberg | Self |
Jonathan Sarna | Self - professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University |
Kurt Herman | Self |
Elizabeth Davis | Self |
Fritzi Nozik | Self |
Marsha L. Rozenblit | Self - social historian of Jews in Central Europe, University of Maryland |
Kurt Admon | Self |
Guy Schless | Self - son of Dr. Robert Schless |
Steven Kraus | imself - son of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus |
Klara Lee | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Steven Pressman | Producer |