5 Christian heroes who rescued Jews from the Holocaust

On Holocaust Memorial Day, Heather Tomlinson reports on those honoured as the “Righteous Among the Nations”

Tears stream down my face whenever I watch the famous scene where Sir Nicholas Winton is presented with a room full of the lives he saved during World War II.

Whether the real clip from the 1980s TV show That’s Life, or depicted in the recent movie One Life starring Anthony Hopkins, it has to be one of the most beautiful moments ever captured on film. Sir Nicholas’s determination to rescue as many children as he could from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia is nothing but admirable and deeply moving, especially on Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) when the six million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis are especially remembered.