I just watched a documentary with my grandad during dinner, and what a tale. This man Nicholas Winton in the run up to the German occupation of Austria and the Sudentland, realized that the Jewish families are in serious danger and made every effort to try and get them out.
Sadly, logistics and politics led him to problems, but he percevered and the Jeewish families said, "If you can't get us all out, at least get the kids out". And he did, he set up plane and train journeys from Prague to London.
He had a saying about it all "If it wasn't impossible, then there must be a way" I think it was.
This documentary was, touching and it took 50 years for him to even get recognized for his accomplishments, it was on a live TV show too. The children he saved was in the audience with him, then they revealed who he was. None of the families ever saw him at the time of the evacuations. They were all gasping and he just sat there teary eyed. Knighted in 2003.
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That seems to have access blocked in the USA, but in November I watched a documentary made in 2000 narrated by Judi Dench called Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, and it covers the same topic from a broader perspective. While highlighting the compassion of individuals to save children, it also reveals a tragic irony: the salvation of children was necessary not solely due to Nazi extermination plans, but also because governments across the world largely refused to allow their adult parents asylum along with them. I think people often wonder why Jews remained in Germany during the Nazi rise to power. Among other reasons, the difficulty in being granted legal admittance to another country was not an insignificant factor. This didn't change much after the war ended, either. It was also a significant problem in the Soviet Union after Stalin's purges expanded to include ethnic as well as ideological targets, Jews being one of the groups targeted.
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