Sir Nicholas George Winton

[GScholz]

Sir Nicholas George Winton is a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War, in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain.

Winton kept quiet about his humanitarian exploits for many years, until his wife Grete found a detailed scrapbook in their attic in 1988. It contained lists of the children, including their parents' names, and the names and addresses of the families that took them in. By sending letters to these addresses, 80 of "Winton's children" were found in Britain. The world found out about his work in 1988 during an episode of the BBC television program That's Life! when he was invited as a member of the audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nFuJAF5F0

 

[guncrasher]

nice to hear about such awesome stories.  some people may also want to check out the Denmark jews.  see how a nation under nazi rule managed to save almost all of them.


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[GScholz]

The Danish miracle escape was made possible by one man: Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz. He was a Nazi diplomat in Denmark and warned the resistance of the impending roundup of Danish Jews. If only other occupied countries could have had an inside source as conscionable as Duckwitz, perhaps a whole lot more of the European Jewry could have been saved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ferdinand_Duckwitz

 

[Ack-Ack]

I met this man when I was a kid, though at the time I didn't know what he had done, I just knew him as a good friend to both my grandfather and grandmother and both worked for him in the Mexican diplomatic corps.  Saved close to 40,000 from Nazi persecution and death camps.

Gilberto Bosques Saldívar

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[GScholz]

 

[Saxman]

Albert Göring was a filmmaker in Germany who openly and blatantly flaunted his disregard for the Nazi party. In one incident he joined a group of Jewish women forced to scrub a city street, and also helped many dissidents and Jews flee Germany.

Once the war began and he obtained a position as Export Director at the Škoda Works in Czechoslovakia he worked with the Czech resistance to encourage sabotage within the plant and continued his efforts helping dissidents escape from Nazi-controlled territories. Göring also made frequent requests for labor to nearby Concentration Camps, only to stop the trucks in isolated areas and set the prisoners free, helping them escape.

His brother was Hermann Göring.

[guncrasher]

I met this man when I was a kid, though at the time I didn't know what he had done, I just knew him as a good friend to both my grandfather and grandmother and both worked for him in the Mexican diplomatic corps.  Saved close to 40,000 from Nazi persecution and death camps.

Gilberto Bosques Saldívar

ack-ack

that is an awesome story ack, thanks for sharing  .


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[Wildcatdad]

This is the kind of stuff that proves to me that there are people out there who care. Thanks guys for posting all this cool stuff.
 

[Karnak]

Chiune Sugihara was another who disobeyed in order to do the right thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara

[Hap]

GS, wonderful.  Thanks for sharing!!   

[Saxman]

Chiune Sugihara was another who disobeyed in order to do the right thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara

Japan in general had an interesting position during the Holocaust, and stymied many of Germany's efforts in some countries, though their position wasn't an altruistic one (they thought the Jews would be economically useful).

[Karnak]

Japan in general had an interesting position during the Holocaust, and stymied many of Germany's efforts in some countries, though their position wasn't an altruistic one (they thought the Jews would be economically useful).

True for Japan, but not for Sugihara.

[GScholz]

Chiune Sugihara was another who disobeyed in order to do the right thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara

 


Interestingly there was a German counterpart to Sugihara: John Heinrich Detlev Rabe helped 200,000 Chinese civilians escape the Nanking Massacre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe

[bortas1]

 

[guncrasher]

Japan in general had an interesting position during the Holocaust, and stymied many of Germany's efforts in some countries, though their position wasn't an altruistic one (they thought the Jews would be economically useful).

and yet they executed 100's of thousands of soldiers and civilians under their control.


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