The Reluctant Hero | Nicholas Winton
86 views · Published 22 October 2018 · 5:47 · Indexed 29 September 2026
Channel: Sean Giordano · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism
Talk about a life well-lived! There is a movie about Winton called "Nickies Family," here: https://tinyurl.com/y9hhfn9y The VIRTUAL JEWISH LIBRARY has a great info piece on Winton... here is how it starts: ___________________________ In 1939, the English stockbroker Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Czech children from their doomed fate in the Nazi death camps, but his achievement went unrecognised for more than half a century. For fifty years most of the children did not know to whom they owed their lives. The story of Nicholas Winton only emerged when his wife Greta came across an old leather briefcase in an attic and found lists of the children and letters from their parents. He hadn't even told her of his role during the war..... (https://tinyurl.com/y7ev7n45)
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