Holocaust hero Nicholas Winton on That's Life

Sir Nicholas Winton was a hero of the Holocaust, who in 1939 oversaw the Czech Kindertransport, which brought children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in the UK.

He worked tirelessly to ensure money was raised and homes were found for the young refugees, rescuing 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis in the months leading up to World War II.

But it wasn’t until a BBC television show, ‘That’s Life!’, surprised him in 1988 by introducing him to dozens of the rescued children – by then adults – that the full story of his heroic efforts became public knowledge.

Sir Nicholas was knighted in 2003, and died in 2015 at the age of 106.

↗ These clips from That’s Life were first broadcast in February 1988