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Current Affairs Nicholas Winton film wins Emmy in New York
Monday night saw the announcement of this year's Emmy television awards in
the United States, and among the winners was a Czech-Slovak co-production
called "Nicholas Winton - the Power of Good." The film tells the
extraordinary tale of a British diplomat who helped around 700 Jewish
children escape Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939. The children never
saw their parents again, while Nicholas Winton never talked about what he
did for fifty years. Radio Prague's David Vaughan recently had the
opportunity of meeting Sir Nicholas Winton, now 93, and some of
"his" children, during a visit to the Czech Republic.
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WitnessRuth Rulcova: the shock of an English cup of tea
A few days ago - for the first time - Ruth Rulcova had the chance to meet the man who saved her life in 1939. In that strange time between the German occupation of Prague in March and the outbreak of war in September, Sir Nicholas Winton was a British diplomat in Prague. He decided to help Czech Jewish children to get out of Prague while there was still time. In all he arranged for 700 children to be taken in by families in Britain. Their parents and relatives who stayed at home nearly all perished in the gas-chambers of the east. Ruth Rulcova was one of those children. Here she remembers her first impressions on arriving in England.
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MagazineNicholas Winton in Prague
One of the most interesting events at the recent Karlovy Vary film festival was the premiere of a documentary film about Sir Nicholas Winton. He was the British diplomat who in the spring and summer of 1939, just after Nazi Germany had occupied Bohemia and Moravia, helped to save the lives of at least 700 Czech Jewish children, by sending them to families in Britain. The film, "Nicholas Winton - the Power of Good" is made by Matej Minac, who also recently made a very popular feature film, "All My Loved Ones", about Sir Nicholas's work. "All My Loved Ones" portrays the agonizing decision of the parents of a Jewish girl, who decide to send their daughter to England, knowing that they will probably never meet again. Today Sir Nicholas is an energetic 93-year-old and last week he was in Prague to meet some of his "children" - who themselves are now nearly all in their seventies. David Vaughan was at the event and brings this report.
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