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Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia--a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...
Author
Publisher
Matador
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
There are around 6000 people who are alive today because of Nicholas Winton. They are the descendants of endangered children rescued in 1939 from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on a Kindertransport he organized. What motivated a young English stockbroker to take on such a monumental task? His daughter, Barbara, sets out to answer this and other questions about the character, motivation and life of the now 104-year-old humanitarian.
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