Nicholas Winton Quotes

I have a motto that if something isn’t blatantly impossible, then there must be a way of doing it.

If it's not faith that drives you, what is it?' (Stephen Sackur) 'Ethics' (Sir Nicholas Winton) 'If everyone believed in ethics, there would be no problems at all. Forget religion.' It's a man who saved incredible numbers of people from imminent Nazi the threat.

1933, Hitler had become Chancellor, the political leader in Germany, and had begun to put into effect his programme for strengthening the German state and restricting the rights of Jews, communists and political opponents through violence, intimidation and loss of employment and other rights.

Dedicated to Sir Nicholas George Winton, who organized the rescue of 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, thereby sparing them from the horrors of the Holocaust. Dubbed the “British Schindler” and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for services to humanity, his operation became known as the Czech Kindertransport (children’s transport). The survivors called themselves “Nicky’s children,” and by the time of Winton’s death at 106 years of age in 2015, their descendants numbered over 6,000 around the world.