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years old when he witnessed his father’s shop destroyed by SS soldiers in an incident known as “Kristallnacht.” In one night, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews and sent some 30,000 Jewish men to Nazi concentration camps. The press covered the event, the news went out worldwide, but no one responded. John can still recall when they received a letter saying that they had six-weeks to leave Germany or they would be put into
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years old when he witnessed his father’s shop destroyed by SS soldiers in an incident known as “Kristallnacht.” In one night, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews and sent some 30,000 Jewish men to Nazi concentration camps. The press covered the event, the news went out worldwide, but no one responded. John can still recall when they received a letter saying that they had six-weeks to leave Germany or they would be put into
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years old when he witnessed his father’s shop destroyed by SS soldiers in an incident known as “Kristallnacht.” In one night, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews and sent some 30,000 Jewish men to Nazi concentration camps. The press covered the event, the news went out worldwide, but no one responded. John can still recall when they received a letter saying that they had six-weeks to leave Germany or they would be put into
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years old when he witnessed his father’s shop destroyed by SS soldiers in an incident known as “Kristallnacht.” In one night, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews and sent some 30,000 Jewish men to Nazi concentration camps. The press covered the event, the news went out worldwide, but no one responded. John can still recall when they received a letter saying that they had six-weeks to leave Germany or they would be put into
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the outbreak of violence by the Nazi party began in German and Austria against the Jewish community. The transports of the children, without their parents, continued until late 1939, when England entered WWII. In her research, she found, for example, that all male children from Austria and Germany, even though they were Jewish, were considered enemy aliens. Some were even deported back to the countries from where they had just fled. Whereas many of the Czech children returned home to their
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March 4 as part of PLU’s Eighth Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education.Several hundred people gathered in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts to watch the film, which tells the story of an American couple, Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus, who dared to venture into Nazi Germany in 1939 to save the lives of 50 children. Pressman happened to stumble upon the incredible story when he met his future wife and granddaughter of the Kraus’, Liz Perle, on the streets of San
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, Jewish Community Centers, embassies and other venues throughout the United States and abroad. Steve is also the author of 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany (published by HarperCollins in April 2014). Steven and his wife, Liz Perle, have two grown children and live in San Francisco.Patricia Heberer Rice Patricia Heberer Rice has served as an historian with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust
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, Jewish Community Centers, embassies and other venues throughout the United States and abroad. Steve is also the author of 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany (published by HarperCollins in April 2014). Steven and his wife, Liz Perle, have two grown children and live in San Francisco.Patricia Heberer Rice Patricia Heberer Rice has served as an historian with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust
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, Jewish Community Centers, embassies and other venues throughout the United States and abroad. Steve is also the author of 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany (published by HarperCollins in April 2014). Steven and his wife, Liz Perle, have two grown children and live in San Francisco.Patricia Heberer Rice Patricia Heberer Rice has served as an historian with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust
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, Jewish Community Centers, embassies and other venues throughout the United States and abroad. Steve is also the author of 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany (published by HarperCollins in April 2014). Steven and his wife, Liz Perle, have two grown children and live in San Francisco.Patricia Heberer Rice Patricia Heberer Rice has served as an historian with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust
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