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appalachiablue

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4. Says it all, what true humanitarian he was.

Reply to 70sEraVet (Reply #3)

Sun Aug 1, 2021, 08:27 PM

Aug 2021

Noted in the material above, Winton was on his way to a skiing trip in 1938 when a friend persuaded him to intervene and help children enduring Nazi terror in Czechoslovakia. He was 29 years old.

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A beloved correspondent from cbc news was saved. So too the mother applegrove Aug 2021 #1

That's wonderful, I didn't know about Sir appalachiablue Aug 2021 #2

That one simple sentence that speaks so eloquently of the guilt of those countries 70sEraVet Aug 2021 #3

Says it all, what true humanitarian he was. appalachiablue Aug 2021 #4