In February 1988, an English TV show host released an old notebook. It had information on Jewish children who were rescued from Czechoslovakia to be placed with foster families in England in 1939. The owner of the notebook was Sir Nicholas Winton in the audience.
When Nazi oppression against the Jews was in full swing, he could not stand still, seeing the Jewish children living miserably at a refugee camp in Czechoslovakia, after losing parents. He rushed back to England to find the families who would adopt the children and to get visas for the children. Despite much cost and risk, he sent them by train to safe households eight times. However, the 250 children who were scheduled to get on the ninth train were lost as World War II broke out, and he could not know whether they were alive or dead. Suffering from guilt, he did not tell anyone what he did. Later, his work was made known to the world by his wife, who accidentally found his notebook in the attic.
“If any of you among the audience saved your life thanks to Sir Nicolas Winton, would you stand up please?” said the host who introduced the notebook.
Then, the people sitting around Sir Winton stood up all together. He shed tears, realizing that the middle-aged audience were the children he had saved in the past. Sir Nicholas Winton is called British Schindler. The number of children he had saved at that time was 669 and their descendants are now over 6,000.