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Steven Pressman

Biography

Steven Pressman

Steven Pressman was a magazine and newspaper journalist for more than thirty years. He is the author of  OUTRAGEOUS BETRAYAL: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from West to Exile, and the writer, director and producer of the HBO documentary film 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus.

Steven Pressman

Books by Steven Pressman

50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
by Steven Pressman - History, Holocaust, Nonfiction

In early 1939, few Americans were thinking about the darkening storm clouds over Europe. Nor did they have much sympathy for the growing number of Jewish families who were increasingly threatened and brutalized by Adolf Hitler's policies in Germany and Austria. But one ordinary American couple decided that something had to be done. Despite overwhelming obstacles, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus made a bold and unprecedented decision to travel into Nazi Germany in an effort to save a group of Jewish children.