Sir Nicholas Winton - A Hero Of Our Times

 

LONDON — He was just a 29-year-old clerk at the London Stock Exchange when he faced the challenge of a lifetime.

 

Traveling with a friend to Czechoslovakia in 1938, as the drums of impending war echoed around Europe, Nicholas Winton was hit by a key realization.

The country was in danger and no one was saving its Jewish children.

 

Winton would almost single-handedly save more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust, earning himself the label "Britain's Schindler." He died Wednesday at age 106 in a hospital near Maidenhead, his hometown west of London, his family said.

 

Winton arranged trains to carry children from Nazi-occupied Prague to Britain, battling bureaucracy at both ends and saving them from almost certain death. He then kept quiet about his exploits for a half-century.

 

 

I don't have the words to express how great I think Sir Nicholas Winton was. The fact that he never told anyone what he had done just shows how pure his heart and intentions were. He never thought it was a big deal. So incredibly brave and resourceful doing the best he could to save innocent lives. They don't create humans like this guy anymore. Until my death I will tell his story to whoever will listen to me tell it.

This clip always get me right in the tear ducts. I remember in 1988 when the world learned his story.