Nicholas Winton honoured by Czechs for saving children from Nazis

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

A British man who saved 669 children, most of them Jews, from the Nazis is to receive the Czech Republic's highest state honour.

Sir Nicholas Winton was 29 when he arranged trains to take the children out of occupied Czechoslovakia and for foster families to meet them in London.
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The Czech defence ministry has sent a special plane to take Sir Nicholas to Prague so President Milos Zeman can award him the Order of the White Lion in a ceremony at Prague Castle.
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Our correspondent said the RAF veteran, who has a passion for planes, accepted the flight invitation on condition that he be allowed into the cockpit.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29798434

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This stands in stark contrast to the behaviour of the British government when faced with people at risk: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014930130

[Omaha Steve]

1. First

K&R!

[mainer]

2. The reunion of Winton with the children is a tearjerker

I learned the story while I was visiting Prague. They reenacted the train trip that so many Czech Jewish kids took to flee, and Winton was aboard to be honored by the children -- now older adults, who had not seen each other since that terrible time. A beautiful tale. It's amazing that he's still alive.

[COLGATE4]

3. He certainly deserves the honor, as well as to

be memorialized at Yad Vashem.

[LeftishBrit]

4. k&r

[melm00se]

5. Watch the video clip from "That's Life"

it is quite moving.

[smirkymonkey]

6. The Kindertransport.

There was a very good film about it called "All My Loved Ones". Very tragic, moving film.