Obituary of Helen Morris

Helen Morris, 86, who was evacuated as a young girl from Nazi-occupied Prague on the so-called "Kindertransport," died Monday at Inspira Medical Center of heart failure. She had lived in Vineland for the past 70 years. Morris, nee Helen Bondy, was one of 669 Jewish youths in Czechoslovakia rescued by Nicholas Winton's operation that sent the endangered children to England, where they were cared for by volunteer families. Morris was received by a wealthy London pair that often drove her around in a Rolls Royce, though she remembered that she mostly got car sick from those trips. Her own mother, despairing at the separation, waited until the last successful transport to send away Helen. Her parents and a brother later successfully escaped the Nazis and reclaimed her during the war - a reunion which both gladdened and disappointed her adopted family in London. Morris then settled in Vineland, as her once well-to-do parents tried their hand at chicken farming. She later married Ernest Morris, another immigrant transplanted to Vineland, and worked as a secretary. Helen Morris, an avid swimmer, spent her winters in Boynton Beach Florida. Right through to the end, she talked about finding a physical rehabilitation center that featured a pool. She was predeceased by her husband, Ernest and her brother Ota Bondy. She is survived by a niece, Larisa Bondy; a nephew, Filip Bondy; four grand-nephews and a grand-niece.