| Description |
xvii, 188 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
In May of 1939, as a ten-year-old boy, Ivan Backer boarded one of Sir Nicholas Winston's famous Kindertransports and fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for the United Kingdom. Detailed in this true story is Backer's escape, his boyhood in England, his perilous 1944 voyage to America and his mantra today as an award-winning humanitarian and an activist for peace and justice. |
| Contents |
The Kindertransport kid, 1939 -- Childhood memories from before the Nazis, 1929-1939 -- The rest of my family escapes, one by one, 1939 -- My three English families, 1939 -- From school to school to school, 1939-1944 -- Perilous voyage to America, 1944 -- New York, 1944-1946 -- Why was I spared? 1946-1952 -- Being a businessman and an activist, 1952-1963 -- Being a parish priest and an activist, 1964-1969 -- Being an educator and an activist, 1969-1979 -- Being a president and an activist, 1979-1999 -- Being retired and still an activist, 1999-now -- Am I a Jew? Am I a Christian? -- People, places, and things: an update. |
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Backer, Ivan A.
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Holocaust survivors -- Czechoslovakia -- Biography.
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Holocaust survivors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Human rights workers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Czechoslovakia.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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| ISBN |
9781634506045 |
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1634506049 |
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