Nicky & Vera is a tenderly crafted, visually layered and deeply reverent celebration of Nicholas Winton, “a quiet hero of the Holocaust.”
Norton
9781324015741
Norton
9781324015741
Nicky & Vera is a tenderly crafted, visually layered and deeply reverent celebration of Nicholas Winton, “a quiet hero of the Holocaust.”
Acclaimed author and illustrator Peter Sís movingly celebrates Nicholas Winton, a “quiet hero of the Holocaust” in Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued.
After briefly depicting Winton’s childhood in England, Sís turns to his years as a young man in Europe, swiftly setting the stage and…
In Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued, acclaimed children's book creator Peter Sís movingly intertwines the lives of Nicholas Winton, a young Englishman who helped arrange train passage for hundreds of Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s, and Vera Diamantova, one of the children Winton saved.
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