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Rescuer of 669 Holocaust Children Honored by Survivors
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9-4-2009 11:45 PM
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9-5-2009
2:22 PM
Antara
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9-5-2009
5:53 PM
pdanzis
Truly deserved honor - hero indeed
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On board: 22 <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8488787">Holocaust survivors</A> who had traveled 700 miles across Europe from Prague in the Czech Republic. And there to meet them on the platform: The man who saved their lives 70 years ago. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abcnews.go.com/International/holocaust-children-honor-sir-nicholas-winton-saved/story?id=8493151"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/abcnews.go.com/img/B280A1B3-C3E7-465D-A854-1D15992C039B" alt="Photo: Twenty-two Holocaust survivors travel 700 miles across Europe to meet the man who saved their lives 70 years ago." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abcnews.go.com/International/holocaust-children-honor-sir-nicholas-winton-saved/story?id=8493151"><P> The last time they made this journey it was the late-summer of 1939. They were children, and the<A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8459321"> Nazi armies</A> were advancing. In those tense times, 669 mainly <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/holocaust-children-honor-sir-nicholas-winton-saved/International/wireStory?id=8460142">Jewish children boarded specially chartered trains</A> at Prague's Wilson Station, bound for England and safety. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abcnews.go.com/International/holocaust-children-honor-sir-nicholas-winton-saved/story?id=8493151"><P> This journey, Slome and other survivors said, on the <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8450330">70th anniversary</A> of their flight from Czechoslovakia is in memory of their parents, in memory of all those murdered by the Nazis, and in honor of the man who saved them from near certain death. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abcnews.go.com/International/holocaust-children-honor-sir-nicholas-winton-saved/story?id=8493151"><P> Fearing that worse was to come, Winton decided to save as many Czech children as he could. 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