Nicky & Vera by Peter Sis (Courtesy W.W. Norton and Company); Holocaust-era hero Nicholas Winton, who helped save 669 Czech children from the Nazi invasion. (AP/Petr David Josek, File)
When Vera, a young Jewish girl, was growing up outside of Prague in 1938, she had little on her mind besides her grandmother and love of animals. But her blissful childhood would change forever with the emerging crisis brought about by her country’s neighbor, Nazi Germany.
When Vera’s parents learned about an opportunity for Jewish children to escape to the United Kingdom organized by an Englishman named Nicholas Winton, they sent their 9-year-old daughter on a train out. Ultimately, 669 Jewish children were saved by the series of transports out of Czechoslovakia.
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Grandmother passes family legacy on to grandson one brushstroke at a time
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TAMPA, Fla. - Childhood memories are etched in the mind of Mary Rose Holmes. My grandmother painted cottages, and the beaches over on the east coast, she explained. When I was born, she had just died and they decided that I would be the painter.
Her grandmother was known as an en plein air artist and so is she. It means painting while outdoors. They gave me lessons private lessons until high school and then I took lessons at Stetson and then went on to get my fine arts degree from Atlanta, Mary Rose Holmes shared.