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Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In May of 1939, as a ten-year-old boy, Ivan Backer boarded one of Sir Nicholas Winston's famous Kindertransports and fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for the United Kingdom. Detailed in this true story is Backer's escape, his boyhood in England, his perilous 1944 voyage to America and his mantra today as an award-winning humanitarian and an activist for peace and justice.
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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