00:00My name is Nick Winton. I'm the son of St. Nicholas Winton, who's most well known for the
00:06rescue he made from children from Czechoslovakia before the war. He was visiting Prague through a
00:14series of circumstances and saw refugees, mostly German Jews, who were being driven out of Germany
00:22and trying to find somewhere safe to avoid the violence that came with Hitler's advance.
00:30And he saw them in camps in the middle of Central European winter, bitterly cold,
00:36with one organisation trying to help the adults, the dissidents. Often the parents were desperate
00:42if they couldn't get out to find a way of getting their children somewhere safe. So he put together
00:48a team, found out from the British government what conditions there were to bringing children
00:54to the UK, and there were some, they were quite onerous. So he started a project to try and find
01:02safety for children who parents were willing to send away. So there was a chain of actions, and
01:11he spent most of his time, when he got back to England, writing letters to try and encourage
01:18people to either donate or to become foster carers. And then when he got a foster family who
01:24said, I might take a, I don't know, five-year-old, he'd send them a stack of cards with pictures of
01:30five-year-olds and say, pick one. Then when the next train was organised, the child would be
01:35brought from Prague to London for the foster family to collect. He had his holiday in January 1939,
01:43and through the spring and summer, he organised eight trains, bringing 669 children
01:50to the UK. And today they're reckoned to be over 6,000 people alive
01:56because of those 669 people he saved.
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