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 (alphabetical order)

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 (M / Austria, 1928), Holocaust survivor]] (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, Holocaust survivor]] (doc, 2013)

Kurt Herman (M / Austria, 1929-2014), Holocaust survivor

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

Robert Lifschutz, Holocaust survivor]] (doc, 2013)

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

Peter Linhard (M / Austria, 1933-2005), Holocaust survivor

Klara Rattner Lee (F / Austria, 1930), Holocaust survivor (doc, 2013)

Kurt Roth (M / Austria, 1928), Holocaust survivor

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