The Stockbroker Who Searched for the Lost Children

In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton canceled his ski holiday and traveled to Prague. Jewish families were desperate, their children in grave danger as Nazi occupation loomed. No government was coming. No organization was mounting a rescue. So Winton went himself. He set up a makeshift office at a hotel dining table. Parents lined up for blocks, pressing photographs of their children into his hands, begging him to find safety for them.…