He who saves one life saves the world

The UKTelegraph tells the story of an ordinary clerk, whose diligence saved over 600 children from the Nazi death camps.

He was packing to go skiing just before Christmas in 1938 when he received a call from a friend working in a refugee camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

"Cancel your holiday," said the friend, Martin Blake. "I need you in Prague. Don't bring your skis."

The young banker was so moved by what he saw that he immediately set about persuading the British authorities to let in refugee children. The response was sluggish.

But after much work by Winton, a Christian whose family had Jewish roots, the paperwork for each child was painstakingly put in order....


Between March and August 1939 eight trains carried 669 children to Britain, who otherwise would probably have perished in the death camps.