Vera Gissing, one of Winton’s children, has died aged 93

Vera Gissing, one of the children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton from Nazi-occupied Prague, has died at the age of 93. Mrs Gissing was born in a small town of Čelákovice in Central Bohemia.

Together with her sister Eva, she left Czechoslovakia in 1939 on a “kindertransport” train Mr Winton had organised to London. She has been living in the UK permanently since the late 1940s.

Mrs Gissing’s story was recently depicted in a book by the Czech-born children’s author and illustrator Petr Sís, called Nicky & Vera. Mrs Gissing also published her own wartime memoirs called Pearls of Childhood.