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Nicky Vera A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued
Author | : Peter Sís |
Publsiher | : WW Norton |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2021-01-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781324015758 |
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A Finalist for the 2022 Jane Addams Children's Book Award An NPR Best Book of 2021 A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2021 A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2021 A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2021 In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazis who were crowded into the city. Setting up a makeshift headquarters in his hotel room, Nicholas Winton took names and photographs from parents desperate to get their children out of danger. He raised money, found foster families in England, arranged travel and visas, and, when necessary, bribed officials and forged documents. In the frantic spring and summer of 1939, as the Nazi shadow fell over Europe, he organized the transportation of almost 700 children to safety. Then, when the war began and no more children could be rescued, he put away his records and told no one. It was only fifty years later that a chance discovery and a famous television appearance brought Winton’s actions to light. Peter Sís weaves Winton’s experiences and the story of one of the children he saved, Vera Gissing. Nicky & Vera is a tale of decency, action, and courage told in luminous, poetic images by an internationally renowned artist.
Nicky Vera
Author | : Peter Sís |
Publsiher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-01-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781324015741 |
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A Finalist for the 2022 Jane Addams Children's Book Award An NPR Best Book of 2021 A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2021 A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2021 A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2021 In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazis who were crowded into the city. Setting up a makeshift headquarters in his hotel room, Nicholas Winton took names and photographs from parents desperate to get their children out of danger. He raised money, found foster families in England, arranged travel and visas, and, when necessary, bribed officials and forged documents. In the frantic spring and summer of 1939, as the Nazi shadow fell over Europe, he organized the transportation of almost 700 children to safety. Then, when the war began and no more children could be rescued, he put away his records and told no one. It was only fifty years later that a chance discovery and a famous television appearance brought Winton’s actions to light. Peter Sís weaves Winton’s experiences and the story of one of the children he saved, Vera Gissing. Nicky & Vera is a tale of decency, action, and courage told in luminous, poetic images by an internationally renowned artist.
Finding Narnia
Author | : Caroline McAlister |
Publsiher | : Roaring Brook Press |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781250765260 |
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Finding Narnia is Caroline McAlister and Jessica Lanan's captivating picture book biography of two brothers, Jack and Warnie Lewis, whose rich imaginations led to the creation of the magical world of Narnia. Before C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, he was a young boy named Jack who spent his days dreaming up stories of other worlds filled with knights, castles, and talking animals. His brother, Warnie, spent his days imagining worlds filled with trains, boats, and technology. One rainy day, they found a wardrobe in a little room next to the attic, and they wondered, What if the wardrobe had no end? Years later, Jack began to think about what could be beyond that wardrobe, and about a girl named Lucy and her siblings. This picture book biography introduces the beloved creator of The Chronicles of Narnia to a new generation of children who see hidden magic in the world around them.
Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation
Author | : Muriel Emanuel,Vera Gissing |
Publsiher | : Mitchell Vallentine |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Bankers |
ISBN | : UOM:39076002463581 |
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"For half a century these children, now dispersed and in their sixties and seventies, were unaware of the person to whom they owed their lives. To Winton, it was 'just a job'. Even his wife knew nothing of what is undoubtably his greatest achievement, until 1988, when clearing out the attic she came across documentation relating to the episode. From that moment, Winton's life was never the same again.".
Tuff City
Author | : Nicholas T. Dines |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780857452795 |
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During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city's cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city's historic centre through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include heritage, decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe's most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.
Pearls of Childhood
Author | : Vera Gissing |
Publsiher | : Robson |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1861059868 |
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In June 1939, shortly before her eleventh birthday, Vera Gissing escaped from occupied Czechoslovakia, leaving behind her parents, family and friends, to spend six years in Britain.Throughout the war years Vera kept a diary, recording her day-to-day experiences, her longing for her parents, her hopes and prayers for the freedom of her country. By the time she returned to Prague to set up home with her aunt in 1945, she knew that both her parents had died - her mother in Belsen, her father on a death march. She came back to England in 1949 and has lived here ever since.The memories and emotions rekindled by a reunion of the Czech school in Wales where she was educated, encouraged Vera to go back to the diaries and letters from her parents that she had not touched for forty years, and in 'Pearls of Childhood' 'she provides a powerful and moving account of the life of one child growing up in extraordinary circumstances.
Nicholas Winton s Lottery of Life
Author | : Matej Mináč |
Publsiher | : American Friends of Czech Re |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Czech Republic |
ISBN | : 0979202604 |
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By the Way Meet Vera Stark TCG Edition
Author | : Lynn Nottage |
Publsiher | : Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781559366489 |
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A new comedy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ruined.