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==== Sir Nicholas Winton, the British Schindler ==== [[Nicholas Winton|Sir Nicholas Winton]] was revealed for the first time on ''That's Life!'' as having rescued a generation of [[Czechoslovakia|Czech]] children from [[the Holocaust]]. Unknown to him, or them, Sir Nicholas was placed in the audience next to three people and about twenty others around him who had been on the trains he organised and owed their life to him. [[Piers Morgan]] described it as the "best moment of television he had ever seen".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/piers-morgan-claims-moving-holocaust-21370293 | title=Piers Morgan claims moving Holocaust clip is 'greatest moment in TV history' | website=[[Daily Mirror]] | date=27 January 2020 }}</ref> It has been viewed on [[Facebook]] and [[YouTube]] more than forty million times.<ref name="historyextra1">{{cite web|url=https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/nicholas-winton-british-schindler-kindertransport-ww2-nazis/ |title=The 'British Schindler' Who Saved 669 Children From The Nazis |first=Gavin |last=Mortimer|work=BBC History Revealed|publisher=HistoryExtra |date=November 2019 |access-date=8 September 2022}}</ref> For his actions, Winton has been compared by the British press to [[Oskar Schindler]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/27/children-saved-from-nazis-british-schindler-memorial-kindertransport-nicholas-winton|title=Children saved from Nazis by 'British Schindler' plan memorial to parents|first=Robert|last=Tait|newspaper=The Guardian|date=27 January 2017}}</ref> A biography of Winton was written by his daughter, ''The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton'' by Barbara Winton,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/19/if-its-not-possible-life-sir-nicholas-winton-barbara-winton-review | title=If It's Not Impossible ... the Life of Sir Nicholas Winton β review |first=Emma|last=Howard| website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=19 June 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=If It's Not Impossible...: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton|first=Barbara|last=Winton|date=25 April 2014|publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd|id={{ASIN|1783065206|country=uk}} }}</ref> and documentaries were later made about his achievements.<ref name="historyextra1"/> Other members of his team included [[Trevor Chadwick]] and [[Doreen Warriner]].
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