Escaping from the clutches of the gas chambers aged just three - Lady Milena has reflected on her life as an adopted Prestonian ever since.
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00:00The first episode of the Parch P podcast, titled The Woman Who Escaped the Nazis, will air on Wednesday the 9th of April.
00:08In this episode, our host, John O'Gilly Gilmore, hears the remarkable story of Lady Milena Grenfell Baines,
00:15known for being one of the Winton children rescued from Czechoslovakia by Sir Nicholas Winton before World War II.
00:22She was separated from her family at age nine and was put on a train bound for England to flee Nazi persecution.
00:29Eventually settling in Preston.