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Vera Gissing
Born
Věra Diamantová

(1928-07-04)4 July 1928
Čelákovice, Czechoslovakia
Died12 March 2022(2022-03-12) (aged 93)
NationalityBritish

Vera Gissing (born Věra Diamantová; 4 July 1928 – 12 March 2022[1]) 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.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Vera Gissing, Who Was Rescued by 'Britain's Schindler,' Dies at 93". The New York Times. 29 March 2022.

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Vera Gissing

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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...

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Nicholas Winton

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2020. Emanuel, Muriel; Gissing, Věra (2002), Nicholas Winton y la generación rescatada, p. 102. Emanuel, Muriel; Gissing, Věra (2002), Nicholas Winton...

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Eva Hayman

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was the writer and translator Vera Gissing. When she was only 15, she was sent on a train to Britain with her sister Vera as part of the kindertransport...

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Elpis Lodge

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came into his care; each tag represented a life that he had saved." Vera Gissing, Pearls of Childhood, p. 87. ISBN 0-86051-945-7 Josephs Zoë Survivors:...

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Deaths in March 2022

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Bijli). Alan J. Faller, 93, American meteorologist and oceanographer. Vera Gissing, 93, Czech-British author and translator. Eliezer Goldberg, 90, Israeli...

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Winton Train

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2009-09-11. Retrieved 2009-09-02. Tom Berman - September 2009 Interview with Vera Gissing, April 22, 2006. "Winton train arrives in London". Channel 4 News. 2009-09-04...

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All My Loved Ones

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For further inspiration, he visited Prague's Jewish Museum and read Vera Gissing's Pearls of My Childhood, which briefly mentioned Nicholas Winton rescuing...

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Camberwell

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born in nearby Walworth, and lived there until he was 28. Novelist George Gissing, in the summer of 1893, took lodgings at 76 Burton Road, Brixton. From...

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Gerda Mayer

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(2005). Prague Winter. Hearing Eye. ISBN 1870841-12-3. Emanuel, Muriel; Gissing, Vera (2002). Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation. Valentine Mitchell...

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Israel Zangwill

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Peculiar People (1892), which the late 19th-century English novelist George Gissing called "a powerful book". The use of the metaphorical phrase "melting pot"...

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Allan Corduner

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Bob Me Without You Max The Grey Zone Miklós Nyiszli The Search for John Gissing Francois "Fuller" Feulliere 2002 Food of Love Joseph Mansourian Moonlight...

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List of historical novelists

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US) Margaret George (born 1943, US) Anton Gill (living, England) George Gissing (1857–1903, England) Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852, Russia) Arthur Golden (born...

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Kindertransport

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News. 1 February 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2014. Emanuel, Muriel; Gissing, Věra (2002). Nicholas Winton and the rescued generation : save one life,...

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George Orwell bibliography

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Defence Committee. The other signatories were Arthur Ballard, Gerald Brenan, Vera Brittain, Fenner Brockway, Alex Comfort, Cyril Connolly, Rhys J. Davies,...

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List of Penguin Classics

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Octavia by Seneca The Octopus by Frank Norris The Odd Women by George Gissing The Odyssey by Homer Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham Of Mice and...

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1880 in literature

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Theodor Fontane Grete Minde Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg George Gissing – Workers in the Dawn Walter T. Gray (Metta Victoria Fuller Victor) – A...

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Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead

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Move Lila "Fantasia" Walker 1993 Ashley Judd Ruby in Paradise Ruby Lee Gissing Suzy Amis Cameron The Ballad of Little Jo Josephine "Jo" Monaghan May Chin...

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List of English novelists

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Dangerous Connections Stella Gibbons (1902–1989) Cold Comfort Farm George Gissing (1857–1903) New Grub Street Lesley Glaister (born 1956) John Glasby (1928–2011)...

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Black carbon

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Dons, Evi; Van Poppel, Martine; Int Panis, Luc; Van de Mieroop, Els; Nelen, Vera; Cox, Bianca; Nawrot, Tim S.; Teughels, Caroline; Schoeters, Greet; Koppen...

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Cinema of Italy

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ISBN 978-8841858257. "Vittorio De Sica: l'eclettico regista capace di fotografare la vera Italia" (in Italian). 6 July 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2022. Bergan, Ronald...

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Baffin Island

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"Rosie" (1924-1925) at Dartmouth College Library Logbooks of the schooner "Vera" (1920) at Dartmouth College Library Nunavut Tourism Portals:  Geography...

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2016 in science

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Esther Wilkins, American pioneer of dental hygiene (b. 1916). 25 December: Vera Rubin, American astronomer (b. 1928). 2016 in spaceflight List of emerging...

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History of feminism

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recognized injustices against women. The novels of George Meredith, George Gissing, and Thomas Hardy, and the plays of Henrik Ibsen outlined the contemporary...

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1893 in literature

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Jane Field André Gide La tentative amoureuse Le voyage d'Urien George Gissing – The Odd Women Sarah Grand – The Heavenly Twins H. Rider Haggard – Montezuma's...

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List of years in literature

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1880 in literature – Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace; Workers in the Dawn – George Gissing; Nana – Émile Zola; The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky. Birth of...

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