Sir Nicholas Winton and the Kindertransport
Sir Nicholas is 100 and over seventy years ago, he organised the rescue of nearly seven hundred children from under the noses of the Nazis in Czechoslovakia. He was so modest about his role, that it didn’t come to light until 1988.
The BBC’s Robert Hall will be following the route of the Kindertransport over the next few days on Breakfast Time.
The Anonymous Widower 
A truly amazing man – I heard about this somewhere else (perhaps History Channel).
Comment by Boo | August 31, 2009 |
Agreed.
I tend to read a lot about these sort of people. You ought to look up Charlie Coward or the Count of Auschwitz. He is thought to have got about 400 slave labourers out of the concentration camp. It’s all in a book called the Password is Courage, which was made into a rather anaesthetic film in the 1960s to commerate World Refugee Year.
Someone ought to remake that film properly before memories fade and history is revised and rewritten.
He is held in high regard by the Israelis and gave evidence at the war crimes trials of those that ran Auschwitz. I think too that after the war he helped to start Hospital Radio in the North Middlesex Hospital, where there is a ward named after him.
I was in Belarus last year and went over their War Museum. We may think we had it bad in the Second World War, but they had it a lot worse! Their population didn’t recover to pre-war levels until I think about 1965.
Comment by AnonW | August 31, 2009 |