Posted on 07/04/2015 5:55:25 AM PDT by NYer
Sir Nicholas Winton - BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988 (1:29 min)
Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE, who just died last week at the age of 106, was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the "Czech Kindertransport."
An article in Time paying tribute to Winton, a Jew by descent who had been raised as a Christian, was traveling in German-occupied Czechoslovakia and recognize that many children would die. He found homes for the children and arranged for trains to carry them from Nazi-occupied Prague to Britain. He drew up lists of thousands of children and persuaded families to accept these refugee children. No small feat, as he was asking people take a child from a different country and often a different tradition into their homes..
Winton kept quiet about his work, and the truth of his heroism for almost 50 years until his wife found documents in the attic about the children. The story was finally told and Winton was Knighted by the Queen of England. This moving video is a clip from the BBC Programme, "That's Life," and aired in 1988.
A man of great humility, ping!
A real hero. He is next to God now.
Why aren’t men and women like this awarded the peace prize?
Someone needs to make a movie about him!
People like this do not seek acknowledgement or rewards in this world. Eventually, as in this case, their deeds are discovered and acknowledged.
A: Because they’re not leftist Presidential candidates.
This man, and many others, deserve places of honor in our histories and statues in our market squares.
A Saint.
Definitely
Not just the Queen of England, but by Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas Queen, Defender of the Faith, Duchess of Edinburgh, Countess of Merioneth, Baroness Greenwich, Duke of Lancaster, Lord of Mann, Duke of Normandy, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Sovereign of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, Sovereign of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Sovereign of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Sovereign of the Distinguished Service Order, Sovereign of the Imperial Service Order, Sovereign of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Sovereign of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Sovereign of the Order of British India, Sovereign of the Indian Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of Burma, Sovereign of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, Sovereign of the Royal Family Order of King Edward VII, Sovereign of the Order of Mercy, Sovereign of the Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Sovereign of the Royal Victorian Order, Sovereign of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.
THAT queen.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been reduced to the status of political trinket.Giving it to a man like Sir Winston now could be an insult.
I love that Winton never thought to mention what he had done......He saw children in need and did something.....
Very good! Thanks for the ping. May he rest in peace.
Thanks for the ping!
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