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In the spring of 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus embarked on a risky and unlikely mission. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, they rescued 50 Jewish children from Vienna and brought them to the United States.

As World War II looms, Pope Pius XI calls on a humble American priest to help him challenge the evils of Nazism and anti-Semitism. But death intervenes, and Pope Pius XII now carries out a very different response to Hitler and the Holocaust.

Though mostly forgotten today, American Jewish sculptor Moses Ezekiel was a lauded 19th century sculptor and a complicated figure, one whose sculptures play a role in the current debate on the removal of Confederate monuments.