Cover of Nicholas Winton's lottery of life

Nicholas Winton's lottery of life

Details and pictures of the so called “Czech Kindertransport” which saved 669 children from the Holocaust by Sir Nicholas Winton, the man known as “the British Schindler”.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

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