50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission Into the Heart of Nazi Germany

by Steven Pressman

Book Overview

Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939--the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States--for readers of In the Garden of Beasts and A Train in Winter. In early 1939, America's rigid immigration laws made it virtually impossible for European Jews to seek safe haven in the United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062237470
• ISBN13: 9780062237477
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"