Rotarian Sir Nicholas Winton honored at Holocaust Museum
It’s been nearly 75 years, but Renata Laxova remembers with heartbreaking clarity the night her mother put her on the kindertransport train to England with 100 other children.
«My mother said, ‘We love you and we want you to be happy and go to school and play,’ » says Laxova, who was just eight years old at the time. «She said ‘You know’ — and I did — ‘everything that is going on.’ »
That «everything» was the advance of Hitler’s armies. They would invade Laxova’s homeland, Czechoslovakia, in 1939. Laxova was one of nearly 700 children — most of them Jewish — who fled Prague between 13…
