Watch a Man Be Surprised by a Room Full of People He Rescued During the Holocaust
Sir Nicholas Winton saved hundreds of Czech children from the Nazi death camps and never told a soul; over 50 years later, he got to meet some of them.
Sir Nicholas Winton is one of the lesser-known figures of World War II. He organized the rescue of over 650 children (mostly Jewish Czechoslovakians) in an operation called the Czech Kindertransport.
The children were destined for the Nazi death camps, and Winton was instrumental in getting them safe passage to Britain.
After the war was over, Winton didn’t brag about his exploits. In fact, he didn’t tell a soul for half a century, not even his wife Grete. Then, in 1988, Grete found a scrapbook dating to 1939 in their attic.
It held all the children’s photos, a list of their names, letters from some of their parents, and other documents. It was the first time she’d learned of her husband’s story.
Later that year, the BBC program That’s Life aired a reunion between Winton and the children – obviously now grown adults – he rescued. Winton was surprised when one of the children he rescued was revealed to be seated beside him, so imagine how he felt when the show’s host asked if there were any other people he’d helped to save in the audience and two dozen others stood and applauded.
What an amazing and inspiring man.
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just when I need it most. 
I can find a number of genuinely decent conservatives, though, who would be very touched and are not at all like the Nazis, without going far either. We live in the deep south surrounded by conservatives, and I'm guessing more than the national 24% or so are still Republicans.
That said, let's toot our own horn: Winton was a strong liberal. Even if very few of us will ever meet the heroic standard he set, the liberal principles he still epitomizes are ours.
