The Bratislava History project was established in
September 2008 and represents the work of five schools working together
in Slovakia and the UK. In October 2008, the occasion of the British state
visit
to Slovakia provided the impetus to bring together 10 extraordinary individuals,
each of whom had a story to tell about our joint British-Slovak history.
Firstly, there
was 99 year old Sir Nicholas Winton, the man responsible for saving the
lives of 669 Jewish Czech and Slovak children before war broke out in
1939. With Winton in Bratislava were four of
the 'children' he saved, each of whom has led a distinguished life in their
own right. The second important group of individuals, were the Slovak veterans of World War
Two who had fought alongside Britain to liberate Europe from Nazism. The
purpose of this project was to interview these individuals and engage with
their pasts; to record these discussions and to present and preserve
these for posterity.
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