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My train to freedom, a Jewish boy's journey from Nazi Eeurope to a life of activism, Ivan A. Backer

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My train to freedom, a Jewish boy's journey from Nazi Eeurope to a life of activism, Ivan A. Backer

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eng

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non fiction

Main title

My train to freedom

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Ivan A. Backer

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a Jewish boy's journey from Nazi Eeurope to a life of activism

Summary

The breathtaking memoir by a member of "Nicky's family," a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton's Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest, Ivan Backer. As Backer recounts in his memoir, in May of 1939 as a ten-year-old Jewish boy, he fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for the United Kingdom aboard one of the Kindertransport trains organized by Nicholas Winton, a young London stockbroker. The final train was canceled September 1 when Hitler invaded Poland. The 250 children scheduled for that train were left on the platform and later transported to concentration camps and presumably perished. Detailed in this page-turning true story is Backer's dangerous escape, his boyhood in England, his perilous 1944 voyage to America, and his mantra today

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