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BARBARA WINTON
Nicholas Winton Biography
After four years of research and writing, my father's biography was
finally published in mid-May 2014 to coincide with his 105th birthday! It
was a great voyage of discovery for me and I was privileged to have had
access to all Nicky's papers and photos which he kept throughout his life,
as well as his own recollections and those of his friends, family and
colleagues. I hope that those who read it, find the stories therein as
fascinating as I did.
Barbara Winton
Paper Back: Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com
Book description:
There are around 6000 people in the world today who owe their lives to
Nicholas Winton. They are the descendants of a group of refugee children
rescued by him from the Nazi threat in 1939. Some of them know of his
existence and the part he played in their history, many others do not. It
was a short event in his life but a critical one for those whose lives
were saved. For him that intervention was over in a flash and other
adventures supplanted it. Only much later did this episode re-emerge in
his life and ever since has brought him visitors from all over the world
anxious to learn his story. This book lays out that story in detail,
exploring the motivation and early experiences that led to him acting to
save young lives, while others looked the other way. His motto, “If
something is not impossible, then there must be a way to do it” led him to
follow his own convictions and undertake an operation others had dismissed
as unnecessary or too difficult. His life thereafter was full of exploits
stimulated by similar motivation which, though not so consequential,
remain testimony to his character. But what was his motivation? How had
his life and background led to him being ready, willing and able to
conduct a successful rescue operation of 669 children from Czechoslovakia
at the age of 29? His daughter has painstakingly sifted through her
father's papers and talked to family and friends to construct a detailed
account of his whole life. It explores the influences on his character as
well as the historical events he was caught up in. Taken from his
historical letters and writings, Winton's own words are introduced to
convey the atmosphere of many of his diverse experiences.
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