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One Life
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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ONE LIFE telIs the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months Ieading up to WorId War lI, rescued 669 predominantIy Jewish chiIdren from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, Iiving in desperate conditions with little or no sheIter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders cIosed?
Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; aIways blaming himseIf for not doing more. lt’s not untiI a Iive BBC teIevision show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now aduIts – that he finaIIy begins to come to terms with the guiIt and grief he had carried for five decades. |
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