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Nicky & Vera, the latest work by the great Czech-born children’s author and illustrator Petr Sís, is being published on January 27,  International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Subtitled A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued, the beautiful and moving book comprises two intertwining narratives: the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, the young Briton who saved 669 mainly Jewish children from the Nazis on the eve of WWII; and that of Vera Gissing, one of the children who Winton managed to get on a “kindertransport” train he had organised from Prague to London. Born Věra Diamantová in a small town in Central Bohemia, she has been living in the UK permanently since the late 1940s and is today aged 92.