Talk:Nicholas Winton

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[edit] Elisabeth Maxwell

Could someone please add info about E.Maxwell and her show where she confronted him with the survivors? Thanks! --88.100.101.113 21:00, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Reply:

I haven't added the following as I have seen it somewhere (snippets in various places) and cannot recall all of the references.

My understanding is that Nicholas Winton's wife passed (copies of?) the material she found in the loft to Elizabeth Maxwell, and that this led to involvement of the media in a research capacity. Somehow, the matter came to the attention of Esther Rantzen who arranged for the "confrontation" on an edition of the programme "That's Life". Winton thought he had been asked to speak about something else he had done, and I don't think (but I am not sure) that the people he saved who were there knew the details of what he had done or that he would be there.

The journalist Joe Schlesinger was one of those rescued and there is an interview in which he describes some of the events surrounding the That's Life edition in question, and where a (silent) clip shows the moment all was revealed. That link is on the Wikipedia page for Joe Schlesinger, and is where it says he has since talked about the experience.

I believe that the Daily Mirror published the story of Nicholas Winton on the same day as the That's Life programme was broadcast.

An extensive account of these events is to be found on the following url: http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/020201/power.shtml (82.29.215.250 15:43, 7 November 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Czechoslovakia ???

The article currently reads: "In 2001, Charles and Rita Gelman of Ann Arbor, MI visited Czechoslovakia shortly after September 11th." But in 2001 Czechoslovakia didn't exist, so this can't be right. Did they visit both the Czech Republic and Slovakia, or just one of the two? Marcoscramer 10:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Righteous Among the Nations

The article currently states that Winton is "...ineligible to be recognised as one of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem" due to being a Jew converted to Christianity. He is listed, however, in the List of Righteous Among the Nations Can anyone help clarify this inconsistency? Doc Dish 19:23, 11 October 2007 (UTC)