Daily Express
January 3, 2024
One Life filming sparked concerns for family over how a key character would be portrayed
As for Sir Nicholas, portrayed by Sir Anthony Hopkins, his son Nick is still in awe of the impeccable casting, telling Express: “The way he captures my father’s mannerisms, it’s uncanny.
Embassy of the Czech Republic
January 25, 2024Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová-Adamová visited London
Finally, members of the delegation held a debate with Czech students studying in the United Kingdom and also with Sir Nicholas Winton’s son Nick Winton and two of the so-called ‘Winton children’, Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines and Baron Alfred Dubs.
Good Morning Britain
December 19,2023
One Life, Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins
Breakfast TV interview about the release of the film One Life with Sir Anthony Hopkins playing my father.
Maidenhead Advertiser
August 12, 2023
Sir Nicholas Winton film ‘brought tears to my eyes’, says son
Nick Winton, his son, has been able to have sneak preview of some of the film – and though must remain tight-lipped on the content, can reveal that what he has seen made him ‘very emotional’.
“It did bring tears to my eyes – which is strange, for a story that I know,” he said. “It’s very personal. At times it was like I was in the same room as my father, which was quite an extraordinary feeling.
Maidenhead Advertiser
December 18,2023
Son of Sir Nicholas Winton talks to pupils about his father’s legacy
The son of Sir Nicholas Winton paid an inspirational visit to Claires Court Juniors to share the heroic life-story of his father.
Sir Nicky is regarded as one of Maidenhead’s most famous figures after he helped rescue 669 mostly Jewish children from the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939.
WGBH-TV
December 15, 2023
Saving The Children: Insights from Nick Winton
The son of Sir Nicholas Winton talks about his father’s rescue work during World War II. There are many thousands of people across the world who are alive today because Sir Nicholas Winton helped rescue Jewish children at risk of being murdered by Nazis during the Holocaust. Hear what Nick Winton thinks his father would want, were he alive today.
Why bar coding migrants has Kindertransport parallels
by Nick Winton
Recent deployments of barcode systems to manage refugees and migrants have sparked a wide-ranging and impassioned debate (“Boat migrants tracked with barcode wristbands”, Report, August 25). Many view this measure as undignified and insensitive, while curiously, we generally accept this technology in our hospitals without a second thought.
Humble hero who rescued 100s of children from Nazis haunted by the kids he couldn’t save
His son says: “To imagine 250 groups of parents putting 250 kids on a train to say goodbye, and then finding out that none of them left must have been heartbreaking. He found it incredibly distressing – he always focused on the children he didn’t save.”
Czech Centre London
December 11, 2023
Made in Prague Festival finishes with a pre-release screening of One Life
In the sold-out auditorium of the Curzon Soho cinema, in the presence of many distinguished guests from the British and Czech cultural and diplomatic spheres, there was not only an unique screening of the film, which will be released in British cinemas on 1 January next year, but also a discussion with the film’s screenwriters Lucinda Coxon and Nick Drake and the son of Sir Nicholas Winton himself, Nick Winton.
West Midlands Fencing
July23,2023
West Midlands Region won this year’s Senior Winton Cup
Standing either side of Josh holding the trophy are guests Carol Winton (Bobby Winton’s daughter) and Nick Winton (Nicky Winton’s son). Bobby and Nicky were brothers and when Bobby wanted to set up a competition, Nicky helped and The Winton Cup has been running since 1950.
Star Tribune
November 10, 2022Nick Winton gave the keynote speech to a capacity audience at Beth El Synagogue in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Kristallnacht, 1938’s “Night of Broken Glass,” is widely recognized as the start of the Holocaust. Mobs of Germans and Austrians attacked, looted and burned Jewish shops and homes, destroyed 1,400 synagogues, killed 92 Jews and sent another 30,000 to concentration camps.
Nick Winton’s father, Sir Nicholas
George Winton, is credited with helping 669 mostly Jewish children escape Czechoslovakia before World War II. Nick Winton spoke at Beth El Synagogue in
Minneapolis on Wednesday.
The parallels between Nazi Germany and Russia are extraordinary, says Winton’s son
In an interview with Seznam Zprávy, he said that his father’s courageous actions shocked and amazed him and praised the Czech Republic for the way it behaved at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Winton Jr. also emphasized that humanity needs to be more willing to accept differences rather than complain about them.
Hundreds of people arrived in Račiněves to plant Nicholas Winton’s Alley
The half-kilometer-long field road, along which volunteers planted trees today, will be connected to the tourist route.
Black mulberry stands at the head of the tree line. The sapling, which was grown from a cutting of a tree from the Wintons’ garden, was planted by Nicholas Paul Winton and his family in honor of his father and recently deceased sister Barbara.
Beth El Synagogue
November 9, 2022
Kristallnacht Commemoration
Nick Winton in from England shares the story of his father, Sir Nicholas George Winton, a British humanitarian credited with organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. What made 29-year-old Winton give up his skiing holiday to rescue these children from the Nazis and how did he do it? Winton’s son Nick will tell his father’s inspiring story about the life-changing events that transformed the destiny of so many.
Municipal Library of Prague
October 27, 2022
With Nick Winton on refugees in the 21st century
At the invitation of the Partnership Foundation, Nick Winton Jr., son of the famous rescuer of 669 Czechoslovak children , will come to Prague . Come and debate at the Municipal Library in Prague. With him and other guests, we will talk about the current situation of refugees threatened by war and the climate crisis in the context of Sir Winton’s brave act during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. And also about challenges for grandchildren from the generation of Winton’s children.
Bournemouth Echo
August 31, 2022
Stature of Trevor Chadwick unveiled in Swanage
Nick Winton praised Trevor Chadwick’s bravery.
He said: “My father became the symbol of Britain’s kindertransport programme. But his view was that didn’t do anything heroic and that there was a team of people like Trevor Chadwick who put themselves at far greater risk by staying in Czechoslovakia to deal with the Gestapo.”
Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert
After their first performance of the 2022 Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square’s Christmas concert this December, singer and “Disney Legend” Lea Salonga and British actor Sir David Suchet participated in a press conference. Each spoke about performing in the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City. As part of this annual program, capacity audiences filled the building with pin-pricks of light shared from their cell phones. “It’s like, ‘Wow,’” said Salonga. The performers were joined by Nick Winton, the son of Nicholas Winton who helped to evacuate hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before World War II.
The American Jewish World
December 22, 2022
Kritastallnacht at Beth El Synagogue
Nicholas Winton lived to be 106 years old, at his death in 2015. His son, Nick Winton, travels the world sharing his story.
He spoke at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park on Nov. 9, the anniversary of Kristallnacht, to a full room of 600 people plus online viewers.
Nadace Partnership
October 31, 2022
Freedom Avenue Tree Planting under Říp Mountain
Nicolas Winton Jr., the son of the famous savior of 669 Czechoslovakian children, came to the Czech Republic at the invitation of the Partnership Foundation and Rotary International to join the celebrations of the Day of Independence of Czechoslovakia and help plant the Memorial Avenue of Freedom in memory of his father.
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