Pearls of childhood. Gissing V.

Vera Gissing’s memoirs, first published in 1988, talk about Jewish children, who were taken from Czechoslovakia to England in June 1939, saving from the Holocaust. Vera was not even eleven years old when her parents put her on the train, sending her to someone else's country in the hope that she would be safe there. For six years, the girl experienced all the hardships of the war, being in the UK, far from the mother and dads remaining in the occupation. She kept a diary where she recorded daily observations, where she was worried about her relatives and prayed for the liberation of her country.

She managed to return to Prague only after the defeat of fascism. But what awaited the faith on the ruins of her beloved Czechoslovakia? Are the survivors stayed? Her deeply felt confession unfolds into a real reflection on the power of human will, the guiding light of hope and the nature of good and evil.