Winton

Nicholas Winton was a young, not even thirty-year-old successful man working in finance in 1938, living a life appropriate to his age. In December of that year, Nicholas was planning a holiday in the Swiss Alps, but his friend Martin Blake, a member of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, asked him to come and see Prague instead of skiing. A visit to a refugee camp where people from the occupied border area were staying literally shocked him. He realized that the refugees, mostly of Jewish origin, were in direct danger of their lives and decided to take action. Since the German authorities refused to let entire families go, he founded the children's section of the British Committee with the aim of saving at least the children. With the help of his mother and several colleagues, he collected the necessary documents from parents who were interested in sending their child to England and processed travel permits with the German occupation authorities. All this under the constant supervision of the Gestapo.