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50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus is a film of genre War released in USA on 7 april 2013 with Alan Alda

50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus (2013)

50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus
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Released in USA 7 april 2013
Length 1h2
Genres War,    Documentary
Rating75% 3.771553.771553.771553.771553.77155

50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus, also known as To Save a Life is a 2013 documentary film written, produced, and directed by Steven Pressman. It was first shown on HBO in April 2013.

The film tells the story of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia who traveled to Nazi Germany in 1939 and, with the help of the B'rith Sholom fraternal organization, saved Jewish children in Vienna from likely death in the Holocaust by finding them new homes in Philadelphia. The Krauses were the grandparents of Pressman's wife, Liz Perle, and the film is based on the manuscript of a memoir left behind by Eleanor Kraus when she died in 1989.

In addition to 50 Children, Pressman has also produced short videos for the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California.

Actors

Alan Alda

(Narrator (voice))Mamie Gummer

(Eleanor Kraus (voice))
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