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Maria Iliou is Director Manager, Co-host for Keys 4 The Human Condition on Friday's. Maria Iliou is Ambassador for Long Island, NY
Maria play audio's of stories from our history, He saved 669 children durning the Holocaust and he dose not know he sitting down next to people in auddiences that he saved their lives.
Sir Nicholas Winton is a humanitarian who organized the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport. After the war, Nicholas Winton didn’t tell anyone, not even his wife Grete about his wartime rescue efforts.
In 1988, a half century later, Grete found a scrapbook from 1939 in their attic, with all the children’s photos, a complete list of names, a few letters from parents of the children to Winton and other documents. She finally learned the whole story. Sir Nicholas Winton he had tears in eyes when he people who he saved their lives years ago also children he saved also had children and their had children also their consider Sir Nicholas Winton apart of their family. Moment he will never forget.