Saying Goodbye to her Parents | Jewish Survivor Vera Gissing | USC Shoah Foundation
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- Vera Gissing remembers her parents decision to send her and her sister Eva on the Kindertransport from Czechoslovakia to England in May 1939. She describes their farewell at the train station in Prague, and the journey to England.
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So kind England had love for you and others. You are a survivor. God bless you. Very sorry for this time in your young life.
What terrible nightmarish times ww2 was for the Jewish children...these children were the very lucky ones...even thou the story heart braking....
Such a moving story
God bless Sir Nicholas Winton!!
It is indeed a lot easier to bless than to stop a genocide.
What a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing.
God bless her and her family. God bless England.
What a poet!
Beautiful story, I want to hear more!
I cant get enough! Very Moving!
Watch - Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines was one of 669 children rescued from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939 on trains organised by an Englishman named Nicholas Winton. To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2016's theme of "don't stand by", she tells Hartlepool Holocaust Memorial Group about the kindertransport, occupied Czechoslovakia and meeting Sir Nicholas on That's Life Video: czcams.com/video/R4izEyyRUyY/video.html
People watching this for english class----->
honors history class really do be forcing us to do this