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The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (Czech: Síla lidskosti: Nicholas Winton) is a 2002 documentary about Nicholas Winton, the man who organized the Kindertransport rescue mission of 669 children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War.
Apr 16, 2020 · Nicholas Winton was a young man in Europe who chose to save lives. His efforts saved the lives of many Jewish children. This surprising and touching recognit...
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- Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Mar 27, 2003 · The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton: Directed by Matej Minac. With Joe Schlesinger, Karel Reisz, Hugo Morom, Joseph Guns. A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children.
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- Matej Minac
- 2003-03-27
The Story. In December 1938, Nicholas Winton, a 29-year-old London stockbroker, was about to leave for a skiing holiday in Switzerland, when he received a phone call from his friend Martin Blake asking him to cancel his holiday and immediately come to Prague: "I have a most interesting assignment and I need your help.
Between March 13 and August 2, 1939, Sir Nicholas Winton organized eight transports (one airplane and seven trains) to take children from Prague to new homes in Great Britain, and kept silent about it until his wife discovered a scrapbook documenting his unique mission in 1988.
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 Nazi collaborators.
Mar 15, 2024 · From The Power of Good (2002) to Nicky’s Family (2011), a number of productions—both documentary and drama—tried to do justice to his remarkable achievement of evacuating 669 Jewish children ...
