FOR half a century Sir Nicholas Winton had been tormented by memories of the last train set to carry Jewish children out of Nazi occupied Europe. Even though the British stockbroker had managed to …
FOR half a century Sir Nicholas Winton had been tormented by memories of the last train set to carry Jewish children out of Nazi occupied Europe.
The British Government had offered to let in Jewish children if a home had been found for them in the UK.Nicholas, the son of two German-born Jews, set about trying to keep them out of the grips of Hitler’s murderous SS. Eva, who was aged 14 when she got on the train, says: “It was awful parting, I will never forget the look in my mother’s eyes. It was an awful thing to live through.”
Nicholas thought he was just there to talk about the kinder transport and did not know they were in the audience - even when he sat next to them. She says: “What was remarkable about Nicky Winton was that it was just him and his mother and a couple of volunteers.It is believed that less than one hundred of the 10,000 kinder transport children are still alive in the UK.Karen Goodman’s mum Margit Goodman, who died aged 93 four years ago, was aged 17 when she got on a Winton train out of
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