War children retrace WW2 escape – answers

true/false

1. The historic train pulled into Liverpool. F: Liverpool Street Station in London
2. The ‘Winton children’ are now adults. T: they are in their 70s and 80s
3. The children were brought to Great Britain to escape the Nazis. T: from Czechoslovakia
4. Nicholas Winton is a British diplomat. F: his a former diplomat – he was in the past
5. The train began its journey in Prague. T
6. 17 years ago 8 trains made the same journey. F: 70 years ago
7. The children on board were all Jewish. F: most were Jewish, not all
8. The children were adopted by British families. F: they were fostered (looked after) not adopted which would be permanent
9. The woman interviewed feels very sad. F: she has mixed emotions – happy and sad
10. Without the British diplomat, these people might not be alive today. T: he saved them from the Nazi concentration camps