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.

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

Robert Spies (M / Austria, 1929), Holocaust survivor (doc, 2013)

Ella Spiegler Goldstein (F / Austria, 1928), Holocaust survivor

Ella Spiegler Goldstein was born in Vienna, Austria on 29 September 1928, the daughter of Wilhelm and Clara (née Bromberger) Spiegler. Following the Nazi-led German annexation of Austria in 1938, the Spiegler family began making plans to emigrate. When the family heard about the efforts of an American couple, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, to sponsor fifty Jewish children from Vienna for immigration to the United States, they applied to have their daughter included, which she was. Ella left Europe in May 1939, with the other "50 children" selected by the Krauses, on the S.S. President Harding, which arrived in New York on 3 June 1939. She, with the other children, initially was sent to the Brith Sholomville childrens home, in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. While other children were soon reunited with their parents, Ella was not able to rejoin her parents, who had immigrated to England, and were not able to immigrate to the United States in 1948. In 1941, she moved to Newark, New Jersey, and after she finished her schooling, went to work in various clerical positions, at the RCA Corporation and later at a department store in Newark. In 1948 she met Benjamin Goldstein (born 21 April 1917), a native of Hartford, Connecticut, and the two were married the following year in Newark.

Henry Tamar (M / Austria, 1929-2014), Holocaust survivor

Erika Tamar (F / Austria, 1934), Holocaust survivor

Erwin Tepper (M / Austria, 1931), Holocaust survivor (doc, 2013)

Julius Wald (M / Austria, 1930), Holocaust survivor

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