Жемчужина детства

Vospominanii͡a Very Gissing, vpervye opublikovannye v 1988 godu, rasskazyvai͡ut o evreĭskikh deti͡akh, kotorykh v ii͡une 1939 goda vyvezli iz Chekhoslovakii v Anglii͡u, spasai͡a ot Kholokosta. Vere ne ispolnilosʹ i odinnadt͡sati let, kogda roditeli posadili eë na poezd, otpraviv v chuzhui͡u stranu v nadezhde, chto tam ona budet v bezopasnosti. Shestʹ let devochka perezhivala vse ti͡agoty voĭny, nakhodi͡asʹ v Velikobritanii, vdali ot mamy i papy, ostavshikhsi͡a v okkupat͡sii. Ona vela dnevnik, kuda zapisyvala ezhednevnye nabli͡udenii͡a, gde trevozhilasʹ za rodnykh i molilasʹ ob osvobozhdenii svoeĭ strany. Vernutʹsi͡a v Pragu eĭ udalosʹ tolʹko posle razgroma fashizma. No chto zhdalo Veru na ruinakh li͡ubimoĭ ei͡u Chekhoslovakii? Ostalisʹ li vyzhivshie? Ee gluboko prochuvstvovannai͡a ispovedʹ razvorachivaetsi͡a v nastoi͡ashchee razmyshlenie o sile chelovecheskoĭ voli, putevodnom mai͡ake nadezhdy i prirode dobra i zla. Chitatʹ dalʹshe…

Vera Gissing's memoirs, first published in 1988, tell about Jewish children who were taken from Czechoslovakia to England in June 1939, saving them from the Holocaust. Vera was not even eleven years old when her parents put her on a train, sending her to a foreign country in the hope that she would be safe there. For six years, the girl endured all the hardships of the war while in the UK, away from her mom and dad, who remained in the occupation. She kept a diary where she recorded daily observations, where she worried about her family and prayed for the liberation of her country. She managed to return to Prague only after the defeat of fascism. But what awaited Vera on the ruins of her beloved Czechoslovakia? Are there any survivors? Her deeply felt confession unfolds into a real reflection on the power of the human will, a guiding beacon of hope and the nature of good and evil. Read more…