Incredible real life story of Brit who saved 669 Jewish children from Nazis – & jaw-dropping moment he finally met them
Dame Esther told The Sun: “When I congratulated him on his wonderful achievement in saving so many children, his reply was, ‘Not enough’.In spite of heroically saving so many children, Sir Nicholas said what he had done was 'not enough'Johnny Flynn plays a younger Nicholas Winton in the See-Saw/BBC Films productionNicholas helped defenceless youth escape Czechoslovakia after Hitler's annexation of the eastern areas of the country“He sounded deeply distressed.
“He battled with the British Government to get permits, and with the Nazis who were suspicious of him.to see me off and there were soldiers with swastikas on their arms standing in the background, lots of anxious parents saying goodbye to their kids, maybe for the last time.
Nicholas thought he was there just to talk about the kindertransport and did not know they were in the audience. Nicholas was certainly not the only British person to go above and beyond to evacuate the vulnerable.12
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