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My Train to Freedom: a Jewish Boy?s Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism

By Backer , Iván A

Book information

Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing;Perseus Book LLC (Ingram)
ISBN
9781634506045, 9781634509756, 1634506049
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3912180 bytes)
Pages
143 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

The breathtaking memoir by a member of "Nicky's family," a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton's Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest, Ivan Backer. As Backer recounts in his memoir, in May of 1939 as a ten-year-old Jewish boy, he fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for the United Kingdom aboard one of the Kindertransport trains organized by Nicholas Winton, a young London stockbroker. The final train was canceled September 1 when Hitler inv.

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