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Sir Nicholas Winton
The Kindertransport refugees hosted by Lord Mayor of City of London at Mansion House of AJR in London Mansion House on 16 7 2024. Photos taken by Adam Soller Photography©
July 17, 2024, 2:23 pm
‘We are proud of the City’s Jewish heritage’: Lord Mayor hosts Kindertransport refugees
Moving event at London's Mansion House marks 85 years since historic humanitarian rescue mission
By Michelle Rosenberg
The concert was hosted by renowned actor Tom Conti, who recently portrayed the German-Jewish refugee Albert Einstein in the film Oppenheimer.
May 13, 2024, 10:48 am
Kindertransport refugees receive standing ovation at 85th anniversary concert
Surviving kinder, among them Lady Grenfell-Baines, Lord Alf Dubs and Bronia Snow, hailed as “national treasures” at Wigmore Hall event.
By Dan Hardoon
The HMD 2024 of AJR in London Belzise Sq Synagogue on 22 1 2024. Photos taken by Adam Soller Photography©
January 23, 2024, 12:49 pm
AJR commemorates life saving rescue missions at Holocaust Memorial Day
Milestone year as Association of Jewish Refugees marks the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport and Kitchener Camp rescues
By Michelle Rosenberg
January 17, 2024, 2:13 pm
‘One Life’ actress Samantha Spiro to appear on stage in Holocaust play
The Most Precious of Goods opens at Marylebone Theatre in London next week
By Sarah Miller
January 4, 2024, 4:28 pm
Anger after Jewish children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton described as ‘central European’
Warner Bros updates wording to make clear the 'kinder' depicted in the film of One Life, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, were overwhelmingly Jewish.
By Lee Harpin
Johnny Flynn as the young Nicholas Winton.
January 4, 2024, 1:15 pm
OPINION: Kindertransport legacy: Confronting antisemitism in today’s world
Some 85 years after Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 mostly Jewish children from Nazi persecution, the British government remains an unshakable ally of the Jewish community
By Karen Pollock
Sir Nicholas Winton surrounded by the children he rescued on That's Life!
December 30, 2023, 4:32 pm
Daughter of Nicholas Winton made ‘pretty big ask’ for casting of One Life film
The life story of British stockbroker Sir Nicholas is being adapted into One Life with Sir Anthony Hopkins taking on the role of a man who saved Jewish Czech children from the Nazis.
By Jewish News Reporter
Sir Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton with Henrietta Garden as Vera Gissing
December 28, 2023, 1:04 am
One Life – the film about Sir Nicholas Winton – opens in cinemas
Finally the movie about the miracle rescue of 669 Jewish children is here and this is their story
By Nicole Lampert
Coming to the festival: Ania Buckstein and Dana Ivgy who star in The Other Widow, directed by Ma’ayan Rypp
October 21, 2023, 8:38 pm
‘We can’t be forced inside by terrorists’
With so many Israeli films in the UK Jewish Film Festival, its' Chief Executive is determined it will happen
By Brigit Grant
September 20, 2023, 12:53 am
Dame Esther Rantzen on “how much I owe to being Jewish”
The campaigner, philanthropist and TV legend shares life lessons and memories of Sir Nicholas Winton with a journalist she helped years ago
By Brigit Grant
"One Life", featuring Sir Anthony Hopkins as Sir Nicholas Winton. Pic: Warner Brothers
September 11, 2023, 5:03 pm
One Life: first trailer for Sir Nicholas Winton biopic featuring Anthony Hopkins
Movie starring Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn and Jonathan Pryce honours life of war-hero and 'British Schindler' who saved hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in 1939
By Michelle Rosenberg
"One Life", featuring Sir Anthony Hopkins as Sir Nicholas Winton. Pic: Warner Brothers
July 26, 2023, 12:54 pm
First look at new Nicholas Winton film starring Anthony Hopkins as wartime hero
Warner Brothers releases images of movie about the 'British Schindler' who rescued hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in 1939
By Michelle Rosenberg
Barbara Winton speaking at a Holocaust remembrance conference in 2017.
September 21, 2022, 1:20 pm
Sir Nicholas Winton’s daughter Barbara dies, aged 69
Barbara was the biographer for her famous father, who rescued hundreds of Jewish children before the war in 1939. She has been heralded as a “fearless campaigner in her own right”.
By Adam Decker
February 1988: This was the audience that cheated death. This was the audience who as infants were marked for Auschwitz or Theresienstadt or Belsen. These were the mothers, fathers and grandparents of more than 6,000 people alive today thanks to the unassuming man in the front row of a television studio, looking slightly embarrassed by all the fuss.
August 4, 2022, 4:10 pm
Families of Sir Nicholas Winton’s kinder invited to recreate TV history
Makers of a film about the Holocaust hero are set to recreate the BBC1 scene where he came face to face with those he helped rescue – inviting their relatives to take part.
By Justin Cohen
Holocaust hero the late Sir Nicholas Winton who will be portrayed by Sir Anthony Hopkins in the film One Life
April 27, 2022, 11:32 am
Anthony Hopkins’ bio-pic of ‘British Schindler’ seals his place in history
Jewish News campaigned for Sir Nicholas Winton to get his own stamp. Now the Holocaust hero gets a posthumous movie
By Brigit Grant
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