60 Minutes: Sir Nicholas Winton "Saving the Children"

Discover the inspiring true story of Sir Nicholas Winton in the award-winning film "Nicky's Family"

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/nicholas-winton

Winton had not told anyone, not even his wife, about his extraordinary rescue efforts before the outbreak of the Second World War. His scrapbook of the children’s names, births, and photographs had lain hidden away in his house for years until one day his wife came across this precious item. She found the list of the children who he had saved. The year was now 1988. At this time, there was growing interest in the Kindertransports and the Kinder themselves held the first reunions in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Kinder too had wondered who had rescued them.

In a remarkable 1988 edition of the BBC television programme That’s Life, Winton sat in the audience as the TV host, Esther Rantzen, started to talk about his rescue of Czech children in 1939. As the camera panned over the audience, guests began to stand up – these were some of the children (now adults) who Winton had rescued. For many of them, it was the first time since their day of arrival that they had seen this man again. He too had not seen many of the children who he had saved for many years.

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