Trevor Chadwick

Trevor Chadwick (22 April 1907 – 23 December 1979) was one of the British who oversaw the operation of the Kindertransport of Jewish children out of Nazi territory to the United Kingdom before World War II.[1][2] He traveled back and forth between England and Prague in 1939 and helped ship several hundred children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by both aeroplane and train.[3][4][5] He worked with Sir Nicholas Winton, who died in 2015 at the age of 106, and who has been honoured since his role in the operation was revealed. Chadwick was a schoolteacher who had no official capacity, but who had volunteered to work with the rescue effort.[6][7]

Winton acknowledged the vital roles in Prague of Chadwick, along with Doreen Warriner, Nicholas Stopford,[8] Beatrice Wellington (born 15 June 1907),[9] Josephine Pike and Bill Barazetti. Of Chadwick, Winton later wrote, "Chadwick did the more difficult and dangerous work after the Nazis invaded... he deserves all praise".[10]

References
  1. Roth, Milena (2004). Lifesaving Letters: A Child's Flight from the Holocaust. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295983776.
  2. "Letters - Forgotten heroes of the kindertransports". The Guardian. London: Guardian Media Group. 3 July 2015. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  3. Kremer, S. Lillian (2003). Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415929844.
  4. Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor (2012). Never Look Back: The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945. Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557536129.
  5. "AJR". www.ajr.org.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  6. Jackman, Josh (10 September 2015). "Call to recognise the teacher who risked his life to save children". The Jewish Chronicle. London. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  7. Whiteman, Dorit Bader (16 August 2001). The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0738205796.
  8. "The Nicholas Winton Kindertransport Myth Comes Off the Rails - The Occidental Observer - White Identity, Interests, and Culture".
  9. Chadwick, William (2010). The Rescue of the Prague Refugees 1938–39. Matador. pp. 114–134. ISBN 978-1-84876-504-7.
  10. Chadwick, William (2010). The Rescue of the Prague Refugees 1938–39. Matador. ISBN 978-1-84876-504-7.
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