The Stockbroker Who Kept Silent for Fifty Years

In the autumn of 1938, Nicholas Winton canceled a skiing holiday and traveled instead to Prague, where thousands of Jewish refugee families were living in desperate conditions. He was a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker with no political connections and no organizational backing. What he had was a desk, a list of names, and a stubborn belief that children should not perish for the failures of nations.…