Vera Gissing

Vera Gissing (born Věra Diamantová; 4 July 1928 – 12 March 2022) was a Czech-British writer, translator, and one of "Winton's children", the children saved by the actions of Nicholas Winton. Her sister, who accompanied her on the kindertransport, was the diarist and nurse Eva Hayman.

Life

Gissing was born in Čelákovice near Prague on 4 July 1928. She was one of the Czechoslovak Jewish children in 1939 who was rescued from transport to the United Kingdom by British broker and humanitarian Nicholas Winton. After the end of World War II, when most of her family perished in concentration camps during the Holocaust, she returned to Czechoslovakia, where she lived until 1948, then immigrated again to the United Kingdom, where she resided. Her story was depicted in a 2021 book by Peter Sís, called Nicky & Vera.

Gissing is the author of the autobiographical book Perličky dětství, composed "not only of personal memories of the pre-war and war years, but also of diary entries and letters that Věra wrote mainly with her parents and later with her sister."

Bibliography

• Pearls of Childhood, 1990
• Perličky dětství, 1992.
• Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good, 2002.

References

1. Nicholas Winton
2. One Life (2023 film)
3. Eva Hayman
4. Elpis Lodge
5. All My Loved Ones
6. Deaths in March 2022
7. Winton Train
8. Camberwell
9. Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock
10. Israel Zangwill
11. A Clergyman's Daughter
12. Gerda Mayer
13. Allan Corduner
14. Literary Taste: How to Form It
15. George Orwell bibliography
16. List of historical novelists
17. List of Penguin Classics
18. Kindertransport
19. Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
20. List of English novelists