Better late than never - Britains Oscar Schindler

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Better late than never - Britains Oscar Schindler

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/worl ... ublic.html

Sir Nicholas Winton: Britain's Schindler honoured by Czech Republic
Sir Nicholas Winton, 105, who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis, receives the Czech Republic's highest honour at a ceremony in Prague
He was interviewed on CNN this morning what a man. Humble and then some. His regret - he never managed to get one more train out and he reckons all 250 kids on it never survived - and that more nations had helped himrescue the kids (his Kinder train) !!!!!! In his own words, it was still peace time so he didn't have the same dangers as Schindler.

Whatever - that is a REAL hero and is now 105 years old!! Hope he's got lots more years left.
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Chuck wrote:Whatever - that is a REAL hero and is now 105 years old!! Hope he's got lots more years left.
+1. clapclap

During television interviews yesterday, he was down-playing the whole thing, more or less saying that it was much ado about nothing, and almost intimating that he didn't do half the things that he was being credited with, and he wasn't the hero that he was being portrayed as.

Well, here's news for you, Sir Nicholas ....... you did, and you are. :good: :grin:

I wish you many more happy birthdays to come. :cheers:
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I read that he did not even tell his wife what he had done. She found out in the 80's while sorting out some of his documents ...
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Yes froggy, that came out on the CNN Interview. I wonder how many heroes have just come home and got with life.

Sickening when they apply that title to some handbag carrier who kicks a ball for 90 minutes on a Saturday then jumps into a bath with 10 other guys! :o :o
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