Trevor Chadwick

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Trevor Chadwick in c 1935

Trevor Chadwick (22 April 1907 – 23 December 1979) was one of the British who oversaw the operation of the Kindertransport of Jewish children out of Nazi territory to the United Kingdom before World War II.[1][2]

Chadwick and the kindertransport[]

He traveled back and forth between England and Prague in 1939 and helped ship several hundred children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by both aeroplane and train.[3][4][5] He worked with Sir Nicholas Winton, who died in 2015 at the age of 106, and who has been honoured since his role in the operation was revealed. Chadwick was a schoolteacher who had no official capacity, but who had volunteered to work with the rescue effort.[6][7]

Winton acknowledged the vital roles in Prague of Chadwick, along with Doreen Warriner, Nicholas Stopford,[8] Beatrice Wellington (born 15 June 1907),[9] Josephine Pike and Bill Barazetti. Of Chadwick, Winton later wrote, "Chadwick did the more difficult and dangerous work after the Nazis invaded... he deserves all praise".[10]

Legacy[]

Chadwick is now commemorated in his home town of Swanage, Dorset with a children's playground named after him in the Recreation Ground.[11] A bronze sculpture of Chadwick with two children by local sculptor Moira Purver has been designed and will shortly (2021) be cast and then installed in the recreation ground.[12] [13] Swanage Town Council has approved (2020) the installation of a blue plaque commemorating Chadwick at Swanage railway station.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ Roth, Milena (2004). Lifesaving Letters: A Child's Flight from the Holocaust. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295983776.
  2. ^ "Letters - Forgotten heroes of the kindertransports". The Guardian. London. 3 July 2015. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  3. ^ Kremer, S. Lillian (2003). Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415929844.
  4. ^ Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor (2012). Never Look Back: The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945. Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557536129.
  5. ^ "AJR". www.ajr.org.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  6. ^ Jackman, Josh (10 September 2015). "Call to recognise the teacher who risked his life to save children". The Jewish Chronicle. London. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  7. ^ Whiteman, Dorit Bader (16 August 2001). The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0738205796.
  8. ^ "The Nicholas Winton Kindertransport Myth Comes Off the Rails - The Occidental Observer - White Identity, Interests, and Culture".
  9. ^ Chadwick, William (2010). The Rescue of the Prague Refugees 1938–39. Matador. pp. 114–134. ISBN 978-1-84876-504-7.
  10. ^ Chadwick, William (2010). The Rescue of the Prague Refugees 1938–39. Matador. ISBN 978-1-84876-504-7.
  11. ^ "The Trevor Chadwick Memorial Trust". Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  12. ^ "The Trevor Chadwick Memorial Trust". Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  13. ^ "Moira Purver: Trevor Chadwick Sculpture". Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  14. ^ Swanage Town Council Minutes, 24 February 2020, pp 4-5.
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