Thread by @StefSimanowitz

During the war, Nicholas Winton - “Britain’s Schindler” - quietly helped rescue 669 children from Nazi Germany

In 1998, he was in the audience on a TV show

Unbeknownst to him, rest of the audience were people he’d rescued
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On #HolocaustMemorialDay it is vital to remember that the genocide didn’t not start with gas chambers

It began with populist, nationalists sowing the seeds of division & hatred, stripping rights, distorting truth & corrupting the institutions of democracy

This is the house from where Nicholas Winton organised the rescue of 669 Jewish children from the Holocaust

The last group of 250 children, scheduled to leave Prague on 1 Sept 1939, were unable to depart

Only two survived the war.
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Winton contacted officials, including President Roosevelt, to see if other countries would offer sanctuary

Only Sweden agreed

Wilton estimates a further 2,000 could have been saved

One the children rescued, @AlfDubs, became an MP

Here Alf reads a poem👇

"To save one life is like saving all humankind"

Winton shows the impact one person can have

Among the children he saved, Gerda Mayer wrote a poem to her father - murdered in 1940 - imagining “the blood washed from your shirt, the tears from your eyes, the earth from your bones”