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10 best books of May: the Monitor's picks

10. "50 Children," by Steven Pressman

Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus were busy living the good life 鈥 enjoying a very comfortable upper-middle class existence as a well-respected attorney and his fashionable wife 鈥 when they were implored to help rescue 50 Jewish children trapped in Nazi-occupied Vienna. Many would have walked away from this daunting challenge but the Krauses did not. Journalist Steven Pressman tells their true story 鈥 and those of many of the children involved 鈥 in an account that is both sobering and inspiring. You can see a Monitor interview with Pressman here.

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