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Sir Nicholas Winton and The Escape of 669 Children
Sir Nicholas Winton and The Escape of 669 Children
She was just 14 years old when her parents decided to send her and her
two sisters away from then Czechoslovakia aboard one of the trains
organized by Winton.
Her uncle wrote to her parents and urged them to get out if possible,
but if they cannot get out, he told them to at least send the children
away. They lived in a very small village in the eastern part of Slovakia,
and people didn't expect that anything would happen there. And all her
parents' friends told them you are making a terrible mistake. Nothing is
going to happen here, but her parents listened to what her uncle said
and sent them on the transport.