In Memory: Holocaust survivor Henry Bawnik

Bawnik survived a Jewish ghetto and four concentration camps, only to nearly die on one of the last days of the war, when British warplanes bombed a German ocean liner that he and thousands of other Jewish prisoners had been forced to board.

Meet Charlotte Masters, granddaughter of a Kindertransport survivor

Charlotte Masters owes her existence to an act of kindness.

Her grandmother was rescued from the Holocaust by Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport, which spirited 669 children – most of them Jewish – from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to safe harbor in Britain.

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