How a 29-year-old outsmarted the Nazis & saved 669 kids in WW2

Nicholas Winton was just 29 when he took on the impossible. In 1938 Prague, on the eve of war, with no office, no staff, and no authority, he forged papers, bribed officials, and organized trains that carried 669 children to safety. He wasn’t a diplomat or a soldier—just a stockbroker who refused to look away. His daring rescue, hidden for fifty years, proved that even one ordinary man can alter the fate of generations.

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