By the time most of you see this post, the story I’m about to share will have probably gone viral. In hundreds of post, I think I have only shared someone else’s story twice…..but if ever there is one worth sharing it is this. Each week, I tell the stories of the only heroes I have, those that selflessly helped others to make our world better. This man takes that term, hero, to an entirely different level. His name is Sir Nicholas Winton.
Right before WWII, he organized the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps. The operation was known as the Czech Kindertransport.
What makes Nicholas Winton even more unique is that he never told anyone about this, not even his own wife, Grete. Almost fifty years later, in 1988, she found a scrapbook from 1939 in their attic. It contained all the children’s names, photos, and a few letters from parents of the children to Winton. That is when Grete finally learned the story.
Get the kleenex, to see what happened when the survivors gathered to give him a wonderful surprise:
So if you have seen this before, it just doesn’t matter. It is humanity at its essence. Simple, pure, humble, goodness. These are the stories that need to be shared again and again because the message reminds us of who we are and can be. Heroes are all around us, they are simply the ones …..who never speak up.
Charity Matters.
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