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Holocaust: Ex-child refugee recalls World War II hero revelation

A former child refugee recalls the moment she was told who saved her from deportation by the Nazis during World War II.

Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines was one of the 669 children who escaped to Britain on Kindertransport trains organised by Sir Nicholas Winton.

She later became a pupil at the Czechoslovak State School set up in the Abernant Lake Hotel in Llanwrtyd Wells in 1943.

When Lady Grenfell Baines received a phone call from a woman who introduced herself as TV presenter Esther Rantzen, she thought a friend was joking and replied saying: “yes, this is the Queen of England.”

Esther Rantzen told her she was one of the children saved by Sir Nicholas and reunited some of those saved by Sir Nicholas in a show in 1988.

Video edited by Greg Davies


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