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Vera Gissing

Vera Gissing (born Věra Diamantová in Čelákovice near Prague) was a Czech-British writer and translator. She was one of "Winton's children," the Czechoslovak Jewish children in 1939 who were rescued from transport to the United Kingdom by British broker and humanitarian Nicholas Winton. Her sister, who accompanied her on the kindertransport, was the diarist and nurse Eva Hayman.

After the end of World War II, when most of her family perished in concentration camps during the Holocaust, she returned to Czechoslovakia, where she lived until 1948, then emigrated again to the United Kingdom. Her story was depicted in a 2021 book by Peter Sís, called Nicky & Vera. Gissing is the author of the autobiographical book Perličky dětství, composed "not only of personal memories of the pre-war and war years, but also of diary entries and letters that Věra wrote mainly with her parents and later with her sister."

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Born 4 July 1928
Died 12 March 2022

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  • Cover of: Pearls of childhood

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  • Cover of: Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation: Save One Life, Save the World (Library of Holocaust Testimonies)

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    First published in 1981 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The wedding of Mrs Fox: and other stories from the Brothers Grimm

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    First published in 1987 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Nicholas Winton a zachráněná generace

    First published in 2002 — 1 edition
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Born 4 July 1928
Died 12 March 2022

Subjects

Children's fiction, Biography, Jewish children, Jews, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Rescue, World War, 1939-1945, Bankers, Jewish children in the Holocaust, Jewish refugees, Kindertransports (Rescue operations), Personal narratives, Philanthropists, Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust, Tales, Arthropoda, fiction, Bears, Czech Jews, Dragons, fiction, Emigrace a imigrace, Fairy tales, Filantropové, Folklore, Great britain, biography, Holocaust, 1939-1945

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Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Canada, England, Juden, Spain, Tschechoslowakei, Velká Británie, Wales, Československo

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Nicholas Winton, Nicholas Winton (nar. 1909), Vera Gissing

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November 19, 2023 Edited by OnFrATa merge authors
November 19, 2023 Edited by Marla Added author details
November 19, 2023 Edited by Marla Added new photo
August 20, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import