Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines - The Last Train to Tomorrow

A talk on the Kindertransport by Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines.

Born into a non-observant Jewish family Nov 1929 in Prague, her father was an advertising manager for a medical magazine and her mother doctor and with one sister, 5 yrs younger.

Due to political activity, their father was advised to flee to the UK and managed to arrange for both daughters aged 9 and 3 to leave Prague on the last Winton Train on July 31st 1939. Their mother escaped via Norway in 1940. The family remained in England after the war.

Milena studied in the Czechoslovak refugee school in Wales during the war and became a nursery nurse, working in France for two years. She married architect Sir George Grenfell-Baines – founder of Building Design Partnership.

She became an interpreter, cookery demonstrator. For the past 15 years, she has visited schools and interested groups on behalf of the Holocaust Educational Trust telling the story of the Kindertransport.

Proceeds from this talk will go to the children's refugee charity Safe Passage.