HBO documents unlikely saviors of 50 Holocaust children
Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus (pictured here) lived a comfortable life in 1930s Philadelphia, where he made a good living as a lawyer, and she kept a stylish house. Photo courtesy HBO
(RNS) Against great odds, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus set out from Philadelphia to rescue 50 children from Nazi-controlled Austria, the subject of a new HBO documentary set to air on Holocaust Remembrance Day.