Category:Kraus Rescue Mission (subject)

Kraus Rescue Mission (see Holocaust Children Studies)

KEYWORDS : Holocaust Refugee Children, United States -- Holocaust Refugee Children -- Jewish Rescuers

Overview

In early 1939, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, with support from the president of the Independent Order of Brith Sholom, Lewis Levine began developing a plan to rescue Jewish children inside Nazi Germany. They were able to obtain 50 U.S. visas and then travelled to Germany in April to select the children for rescue. Upon their arrival the Krauses were told by the Consular Chargé d'Affaires that there were over 200 eligible children in Vienna, and they immediately left for the Austrian capital.

50 children arrived in the United States. Just days before they were to leave Vienna, one of the children, Heinrich Steinberger became ill; his place was taken by Alfred Berg (Steinberger later was killed in Sobibor). Another child Fransi Linhard (1926-1939) died of pneumonia shortly after her arrival in the United States.

The children

Heinrich Steinberger (M / Austria, 1933-1942), Holocaust victim

Kurt Admon (b. 1928) (doc, 2013) NOVEMBER 12, 1928 in Vienna, Austria.

Paul Beller (M / Austria, 1931), Holocaust survivor

Alfred Berg (M / Austria, 1924-2013), Holocaust survivor

Charlotte Berg (F / Austria, 1930), Holocaust survivor

Robert Braun (doc, 2013) -- Robert and Johanna Braun. The Braun children lived with the Krauses until after the war, when they were reunited with their parents.

Johanna Braun

Relly Eisenberg (F / Austria, 1931), Holocaust survivor

Fred Freuthal (M / Austria, 1932), Holocaust survivor

Gerda Halote Stein (doc, 2013)

Kurt Herman (M / Austria, 1929-2014)

Robert Keller (M / Austria, 1926) Vienna August 8, 1926.

Robert Lifschutz (doc, 2013)

Fransi Linhard (F / Austria, 1926-1939), Holocaust survivor

Peter Linhard (M / Austria, 1933) Vienna, April 18, 1933

Klara Rattner Lee (F / Austria, 1930) was born in Vienna on August 16, 1930 but 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)

Kurt Roth (M / Austria, 1928) he was born in Vienna on November 12, 1928 but was officially stateless.

Bianca Siegmann (F / Austria, 1931) she was born in Vienna on April 12, 1931 but was officially stateless.

Edith Sommer (F / Austria, 1930) She was born in Vienna on March 12, 1930.

Robert Spies (M / Austria, 1929) he was born in Vienna on February 21, 1929. (doc, 2013)

Heinz Tamar (M / Austria, 1929) b. Sept 15, 1929)

Erika Tamar (F / Austria, 1934) she was born in Vienna on June 10, 1934.

Erwin Tepper (doc, 2013)

Julius Wald

Henny Wenkart (F / Austria, 1928), Holocaust survivor

Helga Weisz Milberg (F / Austria, 1930-2012), Holocaust survivor (doc, 2013)

Fritzi Zinger Nozik (F / Austria, 1930), Holocaust survivor

Elizabeth Zinger Davis (F / Austria, 1933), Holocaust survivor