Tereza Verecká (*1985, Prague) is an author, dramaturge, and playwright. She studied songwriting and scriptwriting at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and theatrical dramaturgy at DAMU in Prague. She has created several radio plays, texts, and fairy tales for both children and adults. She has published Stropopodní žuchbuchy and Piš, nebo střelím! with Argo. Her horror podcast Lyžák is the most listened-to project on the radio.
Mikuláš Podprocký hails from Slovakia and lives and works in Prague. Born in 1978, he studied Free Creativity 3D at the Technical University of Košice under Professor Juraj Bartusz. Since 2002, he has worked as an illustrator creating computer games for various software companies, including serving as Art Director for the globally successful game Kingdom Come: Deliverance by Warhorse. He has also published two volumes of his own comic series and is involved in book illustration (e.g., The Earthsea Trilogy, Conan, and others).
Winton Was Not Alone
by Tereza Verecká (text), Mikuláš Podprocký (ill.)
December 2024, 224 pages
The story of Sir Nicholas Winton is widely known, but…
How did a young, childless broker come to rescue 669 “Winton’s children”?
The story of Sir Nicholas Winton, who, with his collaborators, saved Czechoslovak and Sudeten children from World War II, is well-known, but…
Prague, 1938. The Munich Agreement drove tens of thousands from their homes as refugees. Fear of war looms in the air, and hopelessness swirls in their minds. There appears to be no solution, but some have not lost hope. Just like Sir Nicholas Winton, they believed that if something is not absolutely impossible, there must be a way to achieve it. The story of the comic book Winton Was Not Alone is a tale of active goodness, demonstrating that one does not need an extraordinary life to be a hero.
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