Comments on: Nicholas Winton is 100 http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/19/nicholas-winton-is-100/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:04:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom Hurka http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/19/nicholas-winton-is-100/comment-page-1/#comment-276150 Tom Hurka Thu, 21 May 2009 21:41:24 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=11190#comment-276150 Dear Barbara, Many thanks for that link. It looks as if my uncle, Felix Heller, is on the list. He joined a Czech unit in the RAF later in the war and was lost over the ocean flying a mission. As I said, my mother was 18 and therefore too old to be on the list. But I never heard many details about my uncle -- many thanks for this. Tom Dear Barbara,

Many thanks for that link. It looks as if my uncle, Felix Heller, is on the list. He joined a Czech unit in the RAF later in the war and was lost over the ocean flying a mission. As I said, my mother was 18 and therefore too old to be on the list. But I never heard many details about my uncle—many thanks for this.

Tom

]]> By: Barbara Winton http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/19/nicholas-winton-is-100/comment-page-1/#comment-275910 Barbara Winton Wed, 20 May 2009 11:26:10 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=11190#comment-275910 Dear Tom, You can check whether your mother and uncle were on the Czech transport by going to this link http://www.just-powell.co.uk/winton/index.htm It contains names of those who were on these transports who have not made contact with anyone about it yet. Regards Barbara Winton Dear Tom,
You can check whether your mother and uncle were on the Czech transport by going to this link http://www.just-powell.co.uk/winton/index.htm
It contains names of those who were on these transports who have not made contact with anyone about it yet.
Regards
Barbara Winton

]]> By: vivian http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/19/nicholas-winton-is-100/comment-page-1/#comment-275863 vivian Wed, 20 May 2009 01:04:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=11190#comment-275863 Part of putting people like Winton in the limelight is the benefit to the rest of us. Publicly declaring that supererogatory goodness, preventing further war crimes by helping the targets escape, is in fact, good, excellent, desirable and worthy of imitating. We get a little piece of his reflected glory, and hopefully this motivates us to get outraged at war crimes committed in our names. So good to mention it to us, and good wishes to Mr. Winton. Part of putting people like Winton in the limelight is the benefit to the rest of us. Publicly declaring that supererogatory goodness, preventing further war crimes by helping the targets escape, is in fact, good, excellent, desirable and worthy of imitating. We get a little piece of his reflected glory, and hopefully this motivates us to get outraged at war crimes committed in our names. So good to mention it to us, and good wishes to Mr. Winton.

]]> By: Tom Hurka http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/19/nicholas-winton-is-100/comment-page-1/#comment-275843 Tom Hurka Tue, 19 May 2009 21:13:37 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=11190#comment-275843 My mother and her younger brother (both Jewish) left Czechoslovakia for Britain in 1939, their parents staying behind and not surviving the war. My mother was 18, her brother younger. They probably weren't in the Kindertransport -- I never heard mention of it -- but they could have been. Thanks, Harry, for the link. My mother and her younger brother (both Jewish) left Czechoslovakia for Britain in 1939, their parents staying behind and not surviving the war. My mother was 18, her brother younger. They probably weren’t in the Kindertransport—I never heard mention of it—but they could have been. Thanks, Harry, for the link.

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