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George II

(67,782 posts) Mon Jan 27, 2020, 02:51 PM Jan 2020

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I thought of this video from 1988:

Get out your tissues!

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On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I thought of this video from 1988: (Original Post) George II Jan 2020 OP

Thank you for posting this GeoWilliam750 Jan 2020 #1

Thanks for the post. What a great person, Sir Nicholas Winton. appalachiablue Jan 2020 #2

My wife and I watch The View, and this morning they did a segment on the significance of today.... George II Jan 2020 #3

Same here, I'm so moved by his story, demeanor and the children. appalachiablue Jan 2020 #4

GeoWilliam750

(2,522 posts)

1. Thank you for posting this

Reply to George II (Original post)

Mon Jan 27, 2020, 11:36 PM

Jan 2020

No matter how many times I watch it, it never gets old.

appalachiablue

(41,184 posts)

2. Thanks for the post. What a great person, Sir Nicholas Winton.

Reply to George II (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 12:33 AM

Jan 2020

More on the story of the Czech children Winton rescued from Nazi persecution in 1938-39.

Of the 669 children saved from the Holocaust through Winton's efforts, more than 370 have never been traced. BBC News suggested in 2015 that they may not know the full story of how they survived the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertransport

George II

(67,782 posts)

3. My wife and I watch The View, and this morning they did a segment on the significance of today....

Reply to appalachiablue (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 12:47 AM

Jan 2020

During a commercial break I started telling her about this man and the video, and I'm not ashamed to say I burst out in tears. Then I looked for and watched the video again (I've watched it dozens of times), and when all those people stood up I started bawling again.

Thanks for the follow-up video, I'd never seen that one before.

appalachiablue

(41,184 posts)

4. Same here, I'm so moved by his story, demeanor and the children.

Reply to George II (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:39 AM

Jan 2020

It's a good thing Winton's ski trip companion got him interested in the situation in Czechoslovakia in 1938.

There were other instrumental leaders like Wilfred Israel of Berlin who's mentioned in the 'kindertransport' wiki above. I never knew of him, another brilliant, courageous and generous man of his time who was lost too soon in 1943.

This period of history is so vast and intriguing, I learn more every year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Israel

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