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The families of both women were later murdered by the Nazis.

Ellen Davies describes how she was beaten by boys from her local Hitler Youth who later forced her and other children to watch as they pushed an old man from the top of a building.

The eldest of seven children, she was the only one her parents could put on a refugee transport as war loomed. Her father survived the war but her mother and siblings were shot as they were taken off a train.聽

Renate Collins remembers her departure from Prague on the last train arranged by Sir Nicholas Winton even though she was only five and had a fever from chickenpox.

She learned last year that her mother and grandmother were summarily executed when the train taking them to the Treblinka death camp broke down.