{"id":21923,"date":"2025-01-27T20:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ex-child-refugee-recalls-world-war-ii-hero-revelation\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T20:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:11:36","slug":"ex-child-refugee-recalls-world-war-ii-hero-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ex-child-refugee-recalls-world-war-ii-hero-revelation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-child refugee recalls World War II hero revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A former child refugee recalls the moment she was told who saved her from deportation by the Nazis during World War II. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines was one of the 669 children who escaped to Britain on Kindertransport trains organised by Sir Nicholas Winton. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">She later became a pupil at the Czechoslovak State School set up in the Abernant Lake Hotel in Llanwrtyd Wells in 1943. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">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: &#8220;yes, this is the Queen of England.&#8221; <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">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.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\"><i id=\"video-edited-by-greg-davies\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">Video edited by Greg Davies<!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cp82jzg1emyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[8239,3999,8240,6438,8241,1037,510],"class_list":["post-21923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-exchild","tag-hero","tag-recalls","tag-refugee","tag-revelation","tag-war","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21925,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923\/revisions\/21925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}