Articles tagged 'Nicholas Winton'
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 | Winton | Winton attends premiere of new film on 1939 rescue effort | The story of the late Nicholas Winton, the British stockbroker who helped save hundreds of mostly Jewish children from the Nazis, has been immortalised in books, documentaries and films – most recently One Life. In 2011, Sir Nicholas was in Prague to attend the premiere of the film Nicky’s Family, and to meet some of those he had helped to save. | BBC Radio 4 | 2011-01-20 | czech czechoslovakia holocaust jews nazis nicholas-winton refugees world-war-two |
 | Home | Prague names street after British Holocaust hero | Milena Fleischmann was nine when she boarded a train in Prague to begin a new life in England. She was clutching a card, showing she had been granted leave by His Majesty’s Government to enter the U.K. – one of only a handful of Jewish children allowed to do so. Only decades later did she learn that her escape from the Nazis had been organised by Sir Nicholas Winton. | BBC Six O'Clock News | 2024-09-03 | czech czechoslovakia holocaust jews nazis nicholas-winton world-war-two |