“There must be a reason for my having been saved. Many of Winton’s children are aware of certain obligations towards their own lives. I’m still confronted with some questions – ‘Why am I alive? Where is my life leading to?’”
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Tom Graumann, one of Nicholas Winton’s children, was born in a Czech-German Jewish family in Brno in 1931. His mother later converted to Christianity. Probably due to the contacts of his mother and a Protestant priest in Těšany u Brna he managed to get to Scotland. He was raised in a strongly religious Presbyterian family. During the war Tom Graumann converted to Christianity as well. He didn’t return to Czechoslovakia after the war. He studied nursing and also attended the Biblical Missionary School in Scotland. He worked as a nurse for most of his life. He worked as a nurse, teacher and missionary in the Philippines for nine years. He lived in the United States after his stay in the Philippiines. He has lived alternatively in the United States and the Czech Republic since 1997. Tom Graumann died on April 27, 2020.