The Rescue of the Prague Refugees 1938/39
The Rescue of the Prague Refugees 1938/39 by William R Chadwick
English | March 27, 2017 | ISBN: 1848765045 | 161 pages | AZW3 | 0.60 MB
English | March 27, 2017 | ISBN: 1848765045 | 161 pages | AZW3 | 0.60 MB
The Story of the Prague Kindertransports and the splendid achievements of Sir Nicholas Winton and Trevor Chadwick in getting some 660 children to safety has often been told. This was only part of the much larger rescue operation. Before Winton and Chadwick even arrived Doreen Warriner was making Lists of those most in danger, negotiating for visas and shepherding train-loads of people to safety. When she left Prague in 1939, spirited out of the country before the Gestapo could arrest her for smuggling "wanted" refugees on her trains, her successor was the indomitable Canadian, Beatice Wellington, who was also more than a match for the Gestapo and indeed for a slow moving British officialdom. These two were directly responsible for saving some thousands of men, women and children.
This book reveals for the first time the full extent of the British rescue effort. It devotes a chapter to the major participants - each one a fascinating character - and what exactly their contribution was to this extraordinary achievement.