ABC News’ Diane Sawyer interviewed Nemcova in the months after the tragedy. Now, 20 years after one of the deadliest natural ...

Growing up, Petra Nemcova had never heard of tsunamis ... which she founded in 2005 to support children affected by these disasters by rebuilding safer schools in the affected areas.

Twenty years ago, Petra Nemcova was waking up the morning after ... The now-45-year-old said that the pain of hearing children's screams and not being able to help them is still "strongly" with ...

Atlee was swept away and later found deceased, while Nemcova clung to a palm tree for eight hours, sustaining a fractured ...

Model Petra Nemcova opens up on 'GMA' about surviving the 2004 tsunami that killed 5,000 in Thailand. 'It's always difficult ...

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Supermodel Petra Nemcova was about to leave Thailand after a lovely vacation ... feeling utmost helpless, as people and ...

Petra Nemcova recalled the "split seconds" before ... She couldn't feel or move her legs at the time as she listened to the screams of children. "Half an hour later, I couldn't hear them anymore ...

Petra Nemcova not only survived the 2004 Indian ... Philippines and Nepal to the benefit of over 100,000 children. All Hands and Hearts works with 53,000 volunteers from 116 countries and aims ...

Petra Nemcova is looking back on the life-changing tsunami that she survived 20 years ago. The supermodel, now 45, clung to a ...

I didn't have a choice to help children," Nemcova said. "But today and every day, I have a choice, and that keeps moving me every day. And we all have a choice every day." PHOTO: Petra Nemcova ...

Nemcova said she heard the screams of people crying out for help, including young children. “I couldn't go and, and swim to them or try to help them because I couldn't move my legs,” she told Sawyer ...