Sue Pearson was born on the 11th of April 1928 in Moravaska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia to a Chemical Engineer father Paul and Housewife Else. ​

She grew up in Prague where she remembers as a ''lovely place to be''. Before the Nazi invaded the Czechoslovakia in 1938. She had a lovely childhood as an only child , going into school, having lovely holidays. She recollects going skiing and ice skating as part of her favourite memories from childhood

Sue and her mother were apart of Rote Falken , an international youth movement which had links with the wood craft people in Britain. Little did they know being part of this would later provide Sue with the opportunity of being one of the 1000 children that were saved as part of the  Kinder Transport.

Having cousins in the countryside of Czechoslovakia is what made Sue realise the gravity of the situation in 1938. Sue remembers how her mother took her from the train station to see if they would seek refuge in Prague, but they did not.

“It is difficult to know how my parents felt when they learned that they had been successful in their application for me to be one of these children. I have often wondered, particularly when my own daughters were the age I was then. The decision my parents made to send me must have been a very brave and difficult one, because they knew they could not come with me. Nor did they know whether they would ever be able to join me".

The day Sue’s train left on the 29th of June 1939 with about 241 children on board this was the last day she saw her parents "I became one of the children on one of the last trains to safety before the war started. I certainly did not realise that I would never see my parents again."

“We travelled through Germany to Holland by train, the train stopped when we got to Holland and most of us remembered that the people from the Dutch red cross came, and gave us hot chocolate and buns, strange what you remember. We then got on a boat which was a new experience for most of us of course as Czechoslovakia is landlocked, it has no sea. We were overnight on the boat and then the next morning when we woke, w the 17 of us were called on deck.''

“When I was met by my foster family, they explained to me where I was going, but of course I hadn’t got any English by then, only a few words. But again I was a bit fortunate because my future foster father did speak German and I spoke German so we were able to communicate a bit."​

Nicholas Winton was the man who saved all the children by creating the Kindertransport scheme