If only I'd saved more, by Britain's Schindler Sir Nicholas Winton's Nobel Prize nomination has highlighted the astonishing courage of a man who rescued 700 children from the Nazis. Olga Craig reports

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: October 14, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

For almost seven decades, Sir Nicholas Winton has prayed daily for the children who were so cruelly left behind: those destined to die in the gas chambers or the squalid concentration camp surgeries, the victims of grotesque experiments. "I think of them all the time," he says softly. "Two hundred of them, crowded into the carriages of the train that should have brought them to safety in England. They haunt me. Their bewilderment when it was delayed. Their terror when, hours later, the trains set off, this time to the death camps. Their tears for their mothers. Did they feel they had been ...

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