Ordinary People, Extraordinary Actions: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus

This was the first presentation in the Amarillo Public Library’s lecture series Modern Perspectives on the Holocaust and was presented live on September 24, 2022 by Steven Pressman, writer and producer of the HBO documentary 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus and author of 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany. In the spring of 1939, on the eve of the Holocaust, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus set out from their home in Philadelphia and traveled to Vienna to carry out a risky and highly improbable mission - rescue a group of Jewish children trapped inside Nazi Germany and bring them to safety in the United States. The Kraus’ story overlaps in numerous ways with the broader themes addressed in the Americans and the Holocaust exhibition. Not only did the couple face the dangers of carrying out their mission in Nazi Germany, but also had to overcome enormous obstacles in the United States in order to bring the children to America. The presentation was given as one of the programs related to the APL’s hosting of the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition, which was created through a partnership between the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association. APL was the only library in Texas to host the exhibition.

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