The Marshalltown Public Library will feature the documentary, “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus,” on Sunday, Apr. 24th and Monday, Apr. 25th at 3:00 p.m. in the library’s community meeting rooms.

“50 Children,” also known as “To Save a Life,” is a 2013 documentary film written, produced, and directed by Steven Pressman.  It was first shown on HBO in April 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 Slolom  fraternal organization, saved Jewish children in Vienna from likely death in the holocaust by finding them new homes in Philadelphia.

Steven Pressman, the filmmaker of “5- Children,” as well as author of a book of the same name, will give a talk on Thursday, Apr. 28th at 6:00 p.m. at Dejardin Hall, Marshalltown Community College.

The program is part of the library’s Americans and the Holocaust exhibition, which is a traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  The exhibition will be at the library through Friday, May 6th.

All events are free and open to the public.  For more information, please call the library’s information desk at (641) 754-5738, ext. 4 or visit the library’s website at www.marshalltownlibrary.org.