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| Nicholas Winton with one of the children he rescued in 1939 |
A British man who saved hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia from the Nazi concentration camps in the Holocaust, has been nominated for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.
Winton had kept his heroic deed to himself for half a century. His pivotal role in the rescue operation was revealed in the late 1980s after his wife found a scrapbook documenting his work in their attic.There are debts that could never be paid.
Update: and it is impossible to overlook this emotionally loaded episode:
9 comments:
Yes, I know exactly what you mean.
There's a fellow who deserved to live so long. The WaPo's piece (of all places)quoted him saying that if America had cooperated he could have saved 2,000 more. But we had this president, see, who was an anti-Semite.
Here's the actual quote: ““If America had only agreed to take them, too, I could have saved at least 2,000 more.”
Yeah, anyway it is too late to regret now.
Yes, thanks.
Notice he did not get the "peace prize."
Too late to regret, maybe, but never too late to correct what passes for history (your favorite subject).
There are those whose existence prove that humanity is not an exercise in mundane natural laws, but rather a higher design in which good, greater than any conceivable evil, is achievable by those who have faith in this and themselves.
Oh, that ;-)
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