Watch What Happens When A Man Finds Out He’s Surrounded By People He Saved From The Holocaust - BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988

In 1938, Sir Nicholas Winton was the leader of an operation to save Jewish Czechoslovakian children from the Holocaust. He found homes in Britain for 669 children, many of whose parents perished in Auschwitz. The operation was later known as the CzechKindertransport. And it all happened after he’d planned to go to Czechoslovakia for a holiday. The British press dubbed him the “British Schindler”.

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Winton spent years dealing with guilt over the children he wasn’t able to save.

His wife discovered a scrapbook, list of names, and journals documenting his rescue operation, and convinced him to go public with his story – whereupon he appeared in 1988 on That’s Life.

Without his knowledge, the show’s producers had surrounded him with 80 of the people he had saved.

He’s also an OBE, and was awarded Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Fourth Class, by the Czech President in 1998. On May 19, 2014, Winton turned 104 and got a beautiful birthday honor.