50 Children Quotes

“What people don’t understand is that in the beginning you could get out. Everyone could get out. But nobody would let us in. —HENNY WENKART”
― Steven Pressman, 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany

“And while the United States opened its doors to 200,000 European refugees—mostly Jews—during Hitler’s murderous reign, the sad fact remains that hundreds of thousands of additional lives lost in the ashes of the Holocaust might well have been saved had America been more generous. Among the victims of the Nazis’ Final Solution were one and a half million children.”
― Steven Pressman, 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany

“In Vienna, as the winter of 1938 was about to give way to spring, the happy childhoods of Robert Braun, Henny Wenkart, Helga Weisz, Kurt Herman, and thousands of other Jewish children dissolved almost at once into a nightmare.”
― Steven Pressman, 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany

“Moreover, the Krauses embarked on their journey during a brief window of time when the Nazis, determined to rid the Third Reich of all Jews, were allowing—in fact, pressuring—them to leave. Tragically, the greater challenge was finding countries that would take them in.”
― Steven Pressman, 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany

“This was the result of one of the cruelest paradoxes of the Nazis' policy of 'Judenrein.' The Nazis wanted Jews to leave and readily allowed Jews to leave. But it took money to go someplace, and Hitler's anti-Jewish laws and policies had stripped virtually all Jewish adults of their wealth and means of earning a living.”
― Steven Pressman, 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany