My Father Helped Save 669 Children | Nick Winton on Sir Nicholas Winton

The Growth Time Machine with Daniel Curtis · Sep 12, 2026 · 57m

Sir Nicholas Winton helped save 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War. His son, Nick Winton, grew up knowing almost nothing about it.In this episode of The Growth Time Machine, Daniel Curtis sits down with Nick for a deeply personal conversation about his father, one of the most remarkable rescue efforts of the twentieth century, and Nick’s own extraordinary life.In 1938, Nicholas Winton travelled to Prague as the situation in Czechoslovakia became increasingly dangerous. Working with others in Prague and Britain, he helped organise the documents…