The Scrapbook in the Attic

In December 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled his ski holiday and traveled instead to Prague. What he found in the refugee camps — hundreds of Jewish families desperate to save their children from the advancing Nazi threat — changed the course of his life. Winton did not give speeches. He did not organize rallies. He sat at a kitchen table and began the painstaking work of forging travel documents, persuading the British government to issue entry permits, and finding foster families willing to take in children they had never met.…