Sir Nicholas George Winton

[RastaRocket]

http://www.wimp.com/secrethero/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton

Found a link to this on another website, and thought it was awesome. This guy is a true hero.

 

[arglebargle]

Good find! Led to some other interesting accounts of heroic good samaritans.

Sadly, the 'Aunt Hilda' account looks like it was babelfished. I had heard about Wallenberg and the Leica Freedom Train before, but never about Winton, Sugihara, and Zwartendijk. I know the Danish resistance also managed to move almost the entire Jewish population of Occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden in an undercover boatlift in just one night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Zwartendijk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertruida_Wijsmuller-Meier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_Freedom_Train

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg

 

[RastaRocket]

Good find! Led to some other interesting accounts of heroic good samaritans.

Sadly, the 'Aunt Hilda' account looks like it was babelfished. I had heard about Wallenberg and the Leica Freedom Train before, but never about Winton, Sugihara, and Zwartendijk. I know the Danish resistance also managed to move almost the entire Jewish population of Occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden in an undercover boatlift in just one night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Zwartendijk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertruida_Wijsmuller-Meier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_Freedom_Train

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg

Awesome!

Thank you for this information. I am going to have to read up on it some more later. It's pretty incredible that somebody such as Sugihara who was a Japanese diplomat was able to pull off what he did without being killed by the axis powers. Just incredible bravery by so many people at that time in history. That is one hell of a generation.