Classic Cinemas

The Story

At the time of going to press, Nicholas Winton, creator of the Czech Kindertransporte was 102. In 1939 he ordered stationery and rubber stamps in the name of The British Committee for Refugees In Chechoslovakia - Children’s Section, 7 Willow Road, Hampstead Heath and appointed himself as the saviour of children who would otherwise have been trapped. Winton’s impish chutzpah, combined with a steely willpower made him their indomitable advocate. The 70th anniversary reunion of Nicky’s Children utilises interviews with the children he saved, now in senior years themselves.This subject has been treated in films before. But contemporary footage of those survivors influencing the current UK generation of school-aged youngsters, mixed with archive footage and dramatised reenactments gives immediacy to the refugee issue.Survivors who lost their own families to the Holocaust created new ones through their own group. By extension, they create new families through relationships which are formed between them and the youngsters who hear their story and feel a moral and emotional kinship with it.