(JTA) — In a 1988 episode of the British television show “That’s Life,” British stockbroker Nicholas Winton was invited to sit in the audience as host Esther Rantzen dramatically revealed ...
The son of the man often described as "Britain's Schindler" has spoken of his pride at what his late father achieved. On the ...
The story of Nicholas Winton, who saved more than 600 children on the eve of the Holocaust, also lays bare stark contrasts between the British and American responses to the Nazi onslaught.
Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines is one of the last survivors of a group of 140 children who fled to Llanwrtyd Wells.
A Holocaust survivor who was among the children evacuated to Britain on the famous ‘Children’s Transports’ is to give a talk ...
In 1938, Nicholas Winton was a young stockbroker in London. He was keenly aware of the events unfolding on the continent. Jews were under threat in Nazi-occupied Europe. Anti-Semitism was ...
A former child refugee recalls the moment she was told who saved her from deportation by the Nazis during World War II. Lady ...
The decision changed his life and saved the lives of 669 people in the process. 106-year-old Nicholas Winton died earlier today on the anniversary of the departure of a train in 1939 carrying 241 ...
A screening of the documentary charting the role of a hero who saved hundreds of children from the Nazi death camps will be showing in honour of Holocaust Memorial Day.
Among them is the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue Jewish children from the then Czechoslovakia. Following the horrific atrocities of ...
Documentary telling the extraordinary story of how Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the clutches of the Nazis, bringing them by train to Britain.
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, we spoke to the son of Sir Nicholas Winton, who with his small team is credited with saving the lives of 669 mostly ...