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Nicholas Winton: the 'British Schindler'
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:33:30
Publish Date: 2024-01-26 00:00:00
Description:

Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, a British stockbroker worked tirelessly to rescue hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by transporting them to new lives in Britain. Nicholas Winton's life and achievements are the subject of a new film // One Life //, and ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, Edward Abel Smith joins Spencer Mizen to discuss his story.


(Ad) Edward Abel Smith is the author of // The British Oskar Schindler: The Life and Work of Nicholas Winton The British Oskar Schindler: The Life and Work of Nicholas Winton // (Pen & Sword, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Oskar-Schindler-Nicholas-Winton/dp/1399011480/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty


The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine.

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