My train to freedom A Jewish boy's journey from Nazi Europe to a life of activism
Book - 2016
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.
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- Published
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New York :
Skyhorse Publishing
©2016.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xvii, 188 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781634506045
- Prologue
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The Kindertransport Kid, 1939
- Chapter 2. Childhood Memories from before the Nazis, 1929-1939
- Chapter 3. The Rest of My Family Escapes, One by One, 1939
- Chapter 4. My Three English Families, 1939
- Chapter 5. From School to School to School, 1939-1944
- Chapter 6. Perilous Voyage to America, 1944
- Chapter 7. New York, 1944-1946
- Chapter 8. Why Was I Spared? 1946-1952
- Chapter 9. Being a Businessman and an Activist, 1952-1963
- Chapter 10. Being a Parish Priest and an Activist, 1964-1969
- Chapter 11. Being an Educator and an Activist, 1969-1979
- Chapter 12. Being a President and an Activist, 1979-1999
- Chapter 13. Being Retired and Still art Activist, 1999-Now
- Chapter 14. Am I a Jew? Am I a Christian?
- Chapter 15. People, Places, and Things: An Update
- Afterword
- Trains
- Appendix 1. From Flossenbürg to Freedom
- Appendix 2. Auschwitz and Death March Survivor Liselott Bächer Fraenkl
- Appendix 3. Letter from Nicholas Winton's Mother, Barbara, to My Mother, 1940
- Acknowledgments