A few weeks before Christmas 1938, some nine months before the outbreak of the Second World War, a young stockbroker called Nicholas Winton was all packed and ready to go on a skiing holiday to Switzerland. A phone call from a friend, Martin Blake, changed his plans — and saved the life of hundreds of children. Winton had long been aware of the threat of Nazism. His parents were German-Jews who'd left for England before the First World War, and …
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