Name of the exhibit: A page from the Winton Scrapbook
Submitted by: Claire Speed
Date of origin: July 1st, 1939
Origin of the object: England
Description: This is a page from the Nicholas Winton Scrapbook that contains a list of names of some of the 669 Czech children that Winton helped to rescue by Kindertransport and find homes for over a period of nine months in 1939. The last name on this page is my mother’s, Emilie Zucker, written rather than typed, along with the name of her sponsor in Nottingham, Ruth Mary Evans, and the foster family, the Lewins, with whom she lived from the age of 13 until she reunited with her mother in Mexico City when she was 18.
Voyage to Ottawa: A friend visited Nicholas Winton in England in 2004 and brought back this photograph from the Nicholas Winton Scrapbook.
