Prague, Jan 21 (CTK) – The Czech-Slovak documentary film Nicky’s Family about Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of Jewish kids from Czechoslovakia from the Holocaust, will be broadcast on the BBC One channel on January 27, film director and producer Matej Minac told journalists yesterday.
“The BBC will present a one-hour version of the film, entitled Children Saved from the Nazis: The Story of Sir Nicholas Winton, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day as its main programme contribution to the event,” Minac said.
Nicky’s Family is a story of the people who did not become victims thanks to the enormous humanity and courage of a single man.
Made in 2011, Nicky’s Family has won almost 40 prizes at film festivals and has been presented all over the world.
Shortly before the beginning of World War Two, Winton, a British diplomat in Prague, organised the transfer of 666 Jewish kids from the then Nazi-controlled Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia by train to Britain, thus saving their lives. He dispatched several trains with the children between May 1939 and September 1, when the Nazis banned the departures.
Winton has received a number of British and Czech awards, including the Czech state Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Order, presented to him by the then president Vaclav Havel in 1998.
The broadcasting of the film by BBC One will be preceded by its projection at the British Foreign Office in Lancaster House on January 22.
The event is organised by BBC along with the charity Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, formed by Prime Minister David Cameron.
“The projection in Lancaster House will be introduced by BBC director-general Tony Hall,” Minac said.
“This will be followed by a discussion with the film-makers as well as the children saved by Winton,” he added.
Winton died at the age of 106 last July.
