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The British Schindler

Nicholas Winton carries one of the many children he helped to save, placing them with foster families when they arrived in Britain
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One of the most popular television programmes of the 1980s was BBC magazine show That’s Life. It regularly pulled in more than 20 million viewers each week, but few episodes were as powerful as the one broadcast on 27 February 1988.

Many Czechoslovakians fled from the Sudetenland in the wake of the Nazi occupation, leaving their homes for a life of poverty and uncertainty
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