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Experience Nicholas Winton's heroic actions during the Holocaust on the DVD, The Power of Good.

Today Nicholas Winton still wears a ring given to him by some of the children he saved in 1939. It is inscribed with this line from Talmud, the book of Jewish law:

"Save one life, save the world."

The Power of Good shows how one man understood imminent death, and acted to save 669 Czech children from the hands of the Nazis. Unique, moving and inspirational, this film includes Mr. Winton, who for fifty years did not tell anyone about his extraordinary rescue mission -- not even his wife. This set now includes The Lottery of Life resource book.

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The Michigan Council of Social Studies (MCSS) awarded Charles (left) and Rita (right) Gelman with the “Great Influence Award”. They were recognized for their many contributions in promoting the International Emmy Award-winning documentary film about Nicholas Winton (center) - The Power of Good. The Power of Good provides a powerful story and teaching tool with which to teach and show as an example the difference that one person can make.

Charles and Rita Gelman with Holocaust hero, Nicholas Winton

Charles Gelman, Nicolas Winton, and Rita Gelman at the GIAs.

Oakland Hebrew Day School Presents the Sir Nicky Winton Project

The POG transformed into an art exploration in Laurie Bellet’s art class at the Oakland Hebrew Day School. Below are some photos and a description of the process.

“The Winton story has value beyond the narrative. My students are still grappling with Winton's life of service and his self-effacing privacy, trying to imagine the strength of such character.”

--Laurie Bellet, Oakland Hebrew Day School, Art Specialist

In the first day of viewing the film, students decided to focus on the prominent luggage tags that children wore when they were transported to England.

On the second day, students were absolutely compelled by the discovery of Winton’s long forgotten scrapbook. They began stamping luggage tags while watching the film.

By the third class, students set up a systematic assembly line to stamp the 669 luggage tags. While a few children worked on the tags, others began to sculpt tiny clay children to add to some of the tags.

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Reprinted with permission.
Photos courtesy of Laurie Bellet.

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"It is inspiring to see a different aspect of the Holocaust. It shows that we are all capable of making a difference."

--Cheryl L

"The video is wonderful and the study guide will be a great classroom tool."

--Susan G.

"My class at college watched your DVD. It was powerful. [During the viewing] the room was silent. All of us thought it was spell-binding."

--Janice R.

"What a gift of love! Thanks again for sharing this DVD and guide with our class."

--Suzanne M.

'British Oskar Schindler' in running for Nobel Peace Prize by Haaretz S&A

"A British man who saved hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia from the Nazi concentration camps in the Holocaust, has been nominated for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.

"Sir Nicholas Winton, dubbed by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as "the British Oskar Schindler," was a young stockbroker when he
pressed the London authorities into agreeing to take in the children if he could find homes for them. And he did. The 669 youngsters were sent to foster parents - mostly in England, a small number in Sweden. In all, eight trainloads carried the mostly Jewish children from Prague through Hitler's Germany to Britain.

"Winton had kept his heroic deed to himself for half a century. His pivotal role in the rescue operation was revealed in the late 1980s after his wife found a scrapbook documenting his work in their attic.

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Sir Nicholas Winton and the human cost of "peace for our time". - by David Vaughan

"It was 69 years ago this week, just after midnight on the night from 29th to 30th September 1938, that the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, his French counterpart, Edouard Daladier, Hitler and Mussolini, signed the Munich Agreement. It is now remembered as the most notorious symbol of Chamberlain's tragically flawed policy of appeasement. The "piece of paper" which he waved on his return to Heston Aerodrome, just west of London, was to be a guarantee of "peace for our time", and Czechoslovakia was the price that was to be paid, as the four most powerful men in Europe agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex a large part of the country. The next day, German troops marched unopposed into the Sudetenland, the mainly German-speaking border regions of Czechoslovakia.

"Despite the popularity of appeasement in Britain, seen as a way of avoiding a repetition of the carnage of the First World War, there were also many who were horrified by the decision to leave Czechoslovakia to its fate. Among them was the young Nicholas Winton.

"'Nobody that I knew at the time, who had thought that Hitler was a menace, thought that the crisis was over. I think we were just incredulous.'

"And when he came to Prague a few weeks later, Nicholas Winton found a similar incredulity mixed with anger and bitterness. At the time he was working at London's stock exchange, but he was firmly left wing, and knew many leading members of the Labour Party. When Hitler marched into the Czech borderlands, he made a decision that was to transform his life. He decided to travel to Prague to help refugees who had fled to the city after the Sudetenland had been swallowed up by the Reich. The subsequent story of how he was to save nearly 700 Jewish children in what came to be known as the Kindertransports, has become legendary. ..."

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