Thursday, December 16, 2010

Can always use hope...

Sent to me by a friend - video is about 2 minutes.



This will help you appreciate the good in people  - - -

In 1907, a German Jewish family named Wertheim left Germany for London, where they acquired a new home and a new surname. Their son, now Sir Nicholas George Winton was born two years later.  
In 1938, Winton by then a successful banker, was about to travel to Switzerland for a ski vacation when he changed his mind and headed for Prague instead to help a friend who was assisting refugees. There he single-handedly established an organization to aid Jewish children from Czechoslovakia separated from their families by the Nazis. From an improvised office in his hotel room he took advantage of a newly passed British law permitting entry into England of refugees younger than 17 if they had a place to stay and a warranty of 50 pounds sterling for a return ticket to their country of origin. Winton found homes for 669 children, many of whose parents perished in the death camps. 

 During the war he served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force.

A short, but moving BBC video of a reunion Sir Nicholas, a robust 101, recently had with many of his “children.”
 http://www.givesmehope.com/view/GMH/50245 

3 comments:

mulderfan said...

So many of us think that just one person can't make a difference. It was wonderful to see that proven wrong. Thanks Ruth!

Ruth said...

I was working on an art project once called the difference of one. It really is amazing how one person can make a real difference.

Laurel Hawkes said...

Awesome.