Nicholas Winton, a comfortable young banker in 1930s England, could have, like most of his countrymen before World War II, carried on with his life. Instead, made aware of Hitler’s movements, he took ...
The most inspiring and heartbreaking story since "Schindler's List" is "Nicky's Family," another authentic Holocaust saga that will make you weep. In my view, there is nothing so poignant as a film ...
In 1994, director Matej Minac went to a movie theater in Prague to see “Schindler's List.” Also in the audience was a group of young skinheads. Minac feared trouble. But by the end of the film, the ...
“One Life” depicts the true efforts of heroic London broker Nicholas “Nicky” Winton and others, who were able to get 669 refugee children out of Czechoslovakia and into Great Britain before Hitler ...
LONDON, England -- Nicholas Winton, a humanitarian who almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust, earning himself the label "Britain's Schindler," has died. He was ...
In December 1938 Nicholas Winton, a 29-year-old British stockbroker, scrapped his plans for a skiing vacation in Switzerland and flew instead to Prague. He had come, at the invitation of a friend, to ...
On a recent flight to one of the many conferences that populate the summer calendar, I watched "One Life," a movie about Sir Nicholas "Nicky" Winton, a young London stockbroker who, in the months ...
LONDON (AP) — “Is there anyone in our audience tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton?” asked the presenter of the popular BBC magazine program “That’s Life”. Around the elderly man, sitting ...
LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - A man who became known as the "British Schindler" for saving hundreds of Czech children from Nazi persecution in the run-up to World War Two, has died at the age of 106.