Klara Rattner Lee (F / Austria, 1930), Holocaust survivor
Klara Rattner Lee (F / Austria, 1930), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Refugees> <United States> <Kraus Rescue Mission>
- MEMOIRS : 50 Children (doc, 2013), by Steven Pressman
Biography
Klara Rattner was born in Vienna on August 16, 1930. She was officially stateless. Klara and her parents survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States. She married a British engineer, Roy Lee, becoming known as Kay Lee. The couple lived in northern California, first San Mateo, and then Atherton. They had three children. Kay Lee now lives in Noe Valley, San Francisco. (doc, 2013)
Doc : 50 Children (2013), by Steven Pressman
- 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. And Mrs. Kraus (USA, 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 ... The documentary, which premiered on HBO in 2013 on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, was narrated by Mamie Gummer and Alan Alda. Some of those who were rescued were interviewed for the film. Aged from five to fourteen, they were senior citizens living in the United States and Israel when the film was made."--Publisher description.