Peter Mittler, age 7
A University of Manchester Professor - and one of the UK's greatest champions for the intellectually disabled - has told of his amazing January 1939 escape from Nazi Austria in a new book. Emeritus Professor of Special Needs Education, Peter Mittler, was one of the 10,000 children to make it to Britain thanks to an international rescue mission known as the Kindertransport. Professor Mittler - now 80 - remembers being one of thousands of Jewish children who were banned from school and forced to roam the streets of Vienna. He was then 7. Jews had their businesses looted, were stopped from working and even banned from sitting on park benches. Many were deported to concentration camps and never seen again. After making it to England aged 8 and being warmly welcomed by a family of strangers, he eventually became head of the UK's first research centre on special educational needs at The University of Manchester in 1968.
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