28 January 2016, The Tablet

Lessons to be learned


 
There are many kinds of heroism, but at its best it is accompanied by modesty. Few heroes have shunned the limelight as effectively as Sir Nicholas Winton.In 1938, Nicky Winton, a young, sporty English stockbroker of Jewish extraction, arranged to get 669 children out of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by train. But for 50 years the details lay hidden in a scrapbook in Winton’s attic. Children Saved from the Nazis (27 January) was an excellent retelling of the story, with high production values and the participation of many of those children, now pensioners scattered across the world.This was a bought-in and adapted version of a feature-length, big-budget documentary made by a Czech and Slovak team, led by Slovak director Matej Minác. It retained lots of glossy, sepia-toned dram
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