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Kindertransport Survivor Walter Bingham Marks Historic Milestone

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Walter Bigham's 100th Birthday Source: Supplied

World’s Oldest Active Journalist, Celebrates 100th Birthday. "On a good day I feel in my 40's"


Born Wolfgang Billing on January 5th 1924 in Karlsruhe, Germany, Walter’s childhood took a dramatic turn as Hitler rose to power. Walter witnessed some of the most dramatic war event during his life, like the Kristallnacht in 1938 and the burning of books by the germans in 1933.


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