Vera Gissing

Vera Gissing (born Věra Diamantová in Čelákovice near Prague) was a Czech-British writer and translator. She was one of "Winton's children," the Czechoslovak Jewish children in 1939 who were rescued from transport to the United Kingdom by British broker and humanitarian Nicholas Winton. Her sister, who accompanied her on the kindertransport, was the diarist and nurse Eva Hayman. After the end of World War II, when most of her family perished in concentration camps during the Holocaust, she returned to …