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Calendar Upcoming Events Details 2010-10-27 “Nicholas Winton, The Power of Good”
Calendar Upcoming Events Details 2010-10-27 “Nicholas Winton, The Power of Good”
| 2010-10-27 “Nicholas Winton, The Power of Good” |
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The documentary “Nicholas Winton, The Power of Good”, is a film by Matej Minac, narrated by Joe Schlesinger. This documentary is being shown one week before Joe Schlesinger’s presentation to the Jewish Genealogy Society on November 3, as part of Holocaust Education Week. Joe is one of “Nicky’s Children”, and he will talk about “Reflections of a Survivor” This documentary film tells the story of one of the greatest humanitarians of our time. Nicholas Winton together with his team (his mother, a secretary, and other concerned individuals) managed to save 669 endangered children, most of them Jewish, from almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis and the Nazi collaborators. Convinced that war was imminent Winton organized eight rescue missions in 1939 that took children from Prague the capital of the former Czechoslovakia and the city soon to be occupied by the Nazis, to Great Britain. There they were placed with families, stayed in hostels, placed on farms, and some were even placed in boarding schools. The final train, carrying 250 children, was scheduled to leave September 1, 1939 but never did. Hitler’s troops invaded Poland that same day and the borders were closed. Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany. None of the children who were to have been on that final train were ever seen again. |
