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Escaping Prague was ‘humdrum’

December 22, 2015 15:49
Nicholas Winton

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One of Nicky's Children has recalled her escape from pre-war Czechoslovakia on the Kinderstransport.

But Lilly Lewy, now 84, said her experience had been "humdrum" in comparison to other children rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton.

She was seven-and-a-half when she fled Prague in May 1939. Mrs Lewy told her story this week after seeing our appeal to find Nicky's Children - some of the 669 youngsters evacuated to Britain by Sir Nicholas from the Nazi-occupied country.

"My principal memory is of the telegraph wires and of the light, presumably moon-light, reflected in the drainage ditches on the side," she said as she recalled the journey.

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