Posted on July 4, 2025
If you read one story today, let it be this one.
Hanus Jan Grosz and his brother Karel were just boys when they were hurried out of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on a kindertransport organized by Sir Nicholas Winton.
When their steam engine chugged away from a crowded platform in Prague one morning in 1939, the youngsters, 14 and 13, both Jewish, escaped almost certain death.
It was a journey into the unknown — the last time they would see their parents Emil and Irma — but it was also a journey to safely in the United Kingdom.