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Inspiring Holocaust survivor, 90, shares how she fled the Nazis on the last train out

Renate Collins was five years old when she fled the Nazis in 1939 and Mirror writer Mizy Judah Clifton met her ahead of this year's Holocaust Memorial Day to talk about her experience 85 years ago

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of these grown—up children to get in touch with us, so they'd have the chance to thank mr winton personally. can i ask, is there anyone in our audience tonight who owes their life to nicholas winton? if so, could you stand up, please? after the first that's life episode featuring sir nicholas winton�*s story aired in 1988, dozens more survivors got in touch with the programme. sir nicholas was invited back to the studio, and this time the audience included many more of the children from the prague trains and their descendants. from this moment on, they called themselves nicky's children, and renate was one of them. applause tv clip: ..mr winton personally. renate: here's me. tv clip: can i ask, is there anyone in our audience tonight _ who owes their life to nicholas winton? and you'd never met him at this point? no, never. no. - tv clip: in the meantime, mr winton. .. _ we often wondered

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don't give in to death. one child who did survive the journey was renate collins, who was put onto a train for london. that's me, innocent little five—year—old. this actually is a legal visa. a lot of the children came with visas without the perforations there. that was ripped off a sheet. some came with illegal ones with no perforations. and if you notice, they've got the swastika on the back. oh. the germans wanted us to go, look. wow. i had a temperature of 104 and chicken pox, and my mother didn't want to put me on the train. and our doctor said, "if you don't put her on this train, she'll never go."

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original scrapbook. wow. i mean, it looks incredibly real to me. yeah, it's incredible to have it all in one place. wow. this is the list of people, yeah, who were going to make it, hopefully. and the houses that they were going to. and you can see, like, swapping things around. they had to make the difficult decision to split up siblings, i think. yeah. the scrapbook is now housed at yad vashem, israel's holocaust museum. here in london, the wiener holocaust library holds the uk's most extensive collection of holocaust material, and in amongst its archive are the heartbreaking letters sent by renate's family. she donated all her documents to this library. the tragic thing is that we don't seem to learn and, all politics apart and religions apart, and so on, it's very interesting because winton said

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affected me and has actually stayed with me throughout the whole of my life, really. i also speak to the younger nicky winton actor, johnny flynn... the experience of making it will never leave me. ..and 90—year—old renate collins, whose life was saved by nicholas winton. i'm assuming that's you. that's me. if it's not faith that drives you, what is it? ethics. this is sir nicholas winton being interviewed on the bbc�*s hardtalk programme in 2014 when he was 105. love, honesty, decency... ..ethics. that standard of life. i believe in ethics. and if everybody believes in ethics,

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"much love, kind regards, and thanks to your foster parents." and you see, my foster parent tried to... "many thanks for birthday greetings." and then he had got confirmed that he couldn't reply. it was too late, so... renate was on the last train to leave prague. the next train, the ninth, was due to leave on the day world war ii was declared and the borders closed. 251 children were on the train ready to leave for great britain when they were stopped by the nazis. announcement: london, liverpool street. _ the last train and all the others that he would have organised after that point didn't leave. for him, it was a tragedy, and he almost can't admit to himself what he knows to be true, which is what happened to those children. and i think only two of them survived the war. so, that was a deep shame that he had to overcome. and so it was a lovely thing for him to meet the children as adults. we asked as many as possible

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"and thanks to your foster parents." and you see, my foster parent tried to... "many thanks for birthday greetings." and then he had got confirmed that he couldn't reply. it was too late, so... renate was on the last train to leave prague. the next train, the ninth, was due to leave on the day world war ii was declared and the borders closed. 251 children were on the train ready to leave for great britain when they were stopped by the nazis. announcement: london, liverpool street. _ the last train and all the others that he would have organised after that point didn't leave. for him, it was a tragedy, and he almost can't admit to himself what he knows to be true, which is what happened to those children. and i think only two of them survived the war. so, that was a deep shame that he had to overcome. and so it was a lovely thing for him to meet the children as adults.

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wow. i mean, it looks incredibly real to me. yeah, it's incredible to have it all in one place. wow. this is the list of people, yeah, who were going to make it, hopefully. and the houses that they were going to. and you can see, like, swapping things around. they had to make the difficult decision to split up siblings, i think. yeah. the scrapbook is now housed at yad vashem, israel's holocaust museum. here in london, the wiener holocaust library holds the uk's most extensive collection of holocaust material, and in amongst its archive are the heartbreaking letters sent by renate's family. she donated all her documents to this library. the tragic thing is that we don't seem to learn and, all politics apart and religions apart, and so on, it's very interesting because winton said something so interesting,

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we asked as many as possible of these grown—up children to get in touch with us, so they'd have the chance to thank mr winton personally. can i ask, is there anyone in our audience tonight who owes their life to nicholas winton? if so, could you stand up, please? after the first that's life episode featuring sir nicholas winton�*s story aired in 1988, dozens more survivors got in touch with the programme. sir nicholas was invited back to the studio, and this time the audience included many more of the children from the prague trains and their descendants. from this moment on, they called themselves nicky's children, and renate was one of them. applause tv clip: ..mr winton personally. renate: here's me. tv clip: can i ask, is there anyone in our audience tonight _ who owes their life to nicholas winton? and you'd never met him at this point? no, never. no. tv clip: in the meantime, mr winton. .. _ we often wondered

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don't give in to death. one child who did survive the journey was renate collins, who was put onto a train for london. that's me, innocent little five—year—old. this actually is a legal visa. a lot of the children came with visas without the perforations there. that was ripped off a sheet. some came with illegal ones with no perforations. and if you notice, they've got the swastika on the back. 0h. the germans wanted us to go, look. wow. i had a temperature of 104 and chicken pox, and my mother didn't want to put me on the train. and our doctor said, "if you don't put her on this train, she'll never go."

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