The True Story of an American Couple’s Rescue Mission in Nazi Germany

Steve Pressman has brought the incredible true story of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to the small screen in his Emmy-nominated HBO documentary 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus and to bookshelves with his acclaimed book 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany.

As part of the library’s programming for Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition for libraries, Steve Pressman will present the heroics of this ordinary American couple who travelled to Nazi-controlled Vienna and Berlin in 1939 to save the lives of fifty Jewish children. With time for Q&A afterwards, the evening promises to give one-of-a-kind insight into this amazing couple’s efforts to fight against Nazism when they felt their country was not doing enough.
(Adults; Cottonwood Room)