All the feels, all at once. h/t Opposing Views .
The backstory: in 1988 Sir Nicholas Winton appeared on the BBC show That's Life.
In 1938, Winton headed an operation to save Jewish Czechoslovakian children from the Holocaust. He found homes in Britain for 669 children, many of whose parents would perish in Auschwitz. The operation was later known as the Czech Kindertransport. And it all happened after he went to Prague instead of a skiing holiday in the Alps. The British press would later dub him the "British Schindler".
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In 1988 his wife discovered a scrapbook, lists of names, and journals documenting his rescue operation, and convinced him to go public with his story – whereupon he appeared on That's Life.
And then this happened.
Without his knowledge, the show's producers had surrounded him with 80 of the people he had saved.
Today Sir Nicholas is 105 years old.
He's also an OBE, and was awarded Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Fourth Class, by the Czech President in 1998.
