03 Feb KINDERTRANSPORT
50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus
Wednesday, February 11, 2026: Reception: 6:00pm Program: 7:00pm
Kindertransport Exhibition On View From: September 18, 2025 to February 15, 2026
Location: Dallas Holocaust and Human Right Museum
In early 1939, few Americans were focused on the darkening storm clouds over Europe. Nor did they have much sympathy for the growing number of Jewish families threatened and brutalized by Adolf Hitler’s policies in Germany and Austria.
One Jewish American couple decided that something had to be done. Despite overwhelming obstacles — both in Europe and in the United States — 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. Steven Pressman, author and documentarian of 50 Children, joins us at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum on February 11 to share their story.
About the Speaker
Steven Pressman, a veteran newspaper and magazine journalist, served as a reporter and editor at arious publications. He is the author of 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany, and the director and producer of a documentary on the same subject. His films, Holy Silence, The Levys of Monticello, and Moses Ezekiel: Portrait of a Lost Artist, have been well received.
Special Short Film Screening
Featured at the beginning of this program will be a screening of Kinder Doll: A Kindertransport Story, a stop-motion animation short film about two fictional children, Otto and Edith, who board a train to Britain with their most prized possessions – a teddy bear and a doll. Created by animation students at UT Dallas, the six-minute film captures the story of refugee children who fled Nazi persecution without their parents.
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