Karel Reisz
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Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker and film critic, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the best-known films he directed are
Reisz in 1966
Reisz and Blair in 1966
Nicholas Winton
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Sir Nicholas George Winton was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue refugee children, mostly Jewish, whose families had fled persecution by Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish p
Karel Reisz
…of Czech Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. His father was a lawyer. Reisz became a refugee, one of the 669 children rescued and evacuated from the country by Sir Nicholas Winton. He was transported to England in 1938, speaking almost no English, and he eradicated his foreign accent as quickly as possible. After attending Leighton…
Winton in Prague on 10 October 2007
Nicholas Winton in 1938 with Hansi
Winton visiting Prague in October 2007.
Commemorative event, in July 2015, at the Prague Main Railway Station sculpture