One Life
Fri, 28 Feb
|Bighton Village Hall
Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter this is the true story of a young Londoner who rescued hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis. There was little public recognition until 1998 when his story was told on the BBC TV programme, 'That's Life".
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28 Feb 2025, 19:30
Bighton Village Hall, Bighton Dean Ln, Bighton, Alresford SO24 9RE, UK
A B O U T
ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed?
Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally…
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