Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation Emanuel Muriel
Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation Emanuel Muriel When Nicholas Winton met a friend in Prague in December 1938, he was shocked by the plight of thousands of refugees and Czech citizens…
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Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation Emanuel Muriel
When Nicholas Winton met a friend in Prague in December 1938, he was shocked by the plight of thousands of refugees and Czech citizens desperate to flee from the advancing German army. Winton felt he could not walk away. A British organisation had been set up to help the adults, but who would save the children?
Armed with their details and photos, he returned to London to convince the Home Office of the urgency of the situation. He set up a makeshift office and in just three weeks interviewed thousands of distraught parents who had the courage to part with their children and send them alone to England. He knew he was working against time.
His supreme efforts resulted in eight trainloads bringing 669, mainly Jewish, children to London. For half a century these children, now dispersed and in their seventies, were unaware of the person to whom they owed their lives. To Winton, it was just
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