Worth repeating

Peter Sever called this minute-and-a-half video to my attention, saying:

One of my father’s relatives-by-marriage is among the 699 saved children. She lives outside Hamilton. I discovered this in a phone call this week…

Here’s the backstory…
In 1939 the English stockbroker Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Czech children from their doomed fate in the Nazi death camps, but his achievement went unrecognised for over half a century. For fifty years most of the children did not know to whom they owed their lives. The story of Nicholas Winton only emerged when his wife Greta came across an old leather briefcase in an attic and found lists of the children and letters from their parents. He hadn’t even told her of his role during the war.
Nicholas Winton, then a 30-year-old clerk at the London stock exchange, visited Prague, Czechoslovakia, in late 1938 at the invitation of a friend at the British Embassy. When he arrived, the British team working in newly erected refugee camps asked him to lend a hand.
He spent only a couple of months in Prague but was alarmed by the influx of refugees, endangered by the imminent Nazi invasion. He immediately recognized the advancing danger and courageously decided to make every effort to get the children outside the reach of Nazi power.
‘The commission was dealing with the elderly and vulnerable and people in the camps kept telling me that nobody was doing anything for the children,’ Nicholas Winton later recalled.
He set up office at a dining room table in his hotel in Wenceslas Square in Prague. Word got out of the’Englishman of Wenceslas Square’ and parents flocked to the hotel to try to persuade him to put their children on the list, desperate to get them out before the Nazis invaded. ‘It seemed hopeless,’ he said years later, ‘each group felt that they were the most urgent.’ But Winton managed to set up the organisation for the Czech Kindertransport in Prague in early 1939 before he went back to London to handle all the necessary matters from Britain.