Reading, viewing and discussing too. Look at the title and photos below and predict what the text will be about, then read the text and check your prediction. The other shellers IT is nineteen eighty eight and a popular B, B, C, T, V program that's life pants over its studio audience. The presenter dance's casually, is there anyone in our audience tonight who is their life to Nicholas winton? If so, could you stand up please? At her request, everyone in the first four rose stands up, except for an elderly man and his wife. The man Nicholas winton, turns around in complete disbelief before sitting back down, attempting to hold back the tears. The story begins in nineteen thirty eight. Winton, a Young stockbroker from london. Winter prog, check a slower now the check republic, to see if he could help refugees, mainly jews, escape the terror. Most had no real hope of getting out, but was IT possible that their children might be able to slip away. The safety, yes, IT was possible, provided Foster parents could be found for them in england. And a fifty pound bond was posted per child. Winton spent three weeks in prog interviewing parents, collecting names and taking photos of children. He was then able to see off one small group of children. Finding Foster parents in dealing with the british bureaucratic indifference seemed an almost impossible problem. However, he returned to london with a list of names in hand. Back home, he ran newspaper ads looking for homes for the children, coordinated placement and got transit permits. He even forced permits when he had to. That summer, eight groups, at least six hundred and sixty nine children in all, made IT to england with his help. Tragically, a ninth group of two hundred and fifty children was scheduled to leave, but prevented by the nazis. Without wind's help, nearly all of the six hundred and sixty nine children would have become casualties of the nazi horror. Indeed, such was not the brutality that only two of the children in the nineteen group survived the war. When the second world war began, winton became an ambuLance driver in france and was rescued at dn kirk. He then joined the british royal air force raf. After the war, he quietly engaged himself in charitable able activities, his accomplishment in saving those children from their certain death was forgotten until his wife found a book in his attic with the names of hundreds of children and asked that life to help her track them down. The episode of the program, which resulted, was widely viewed as one of the most moving ever broadcasting and instantly made winton a household name. Winton died, honored and revealed in two thousand fifteen at the age of one hundred, and six of all the last known shellers who helped juice escape the nazi terror. One of the most skill is whole phone shine. Born in who non province, who became a diplomat for the chinese government in nineteen thirty five and received the post representing china in viana, austria a in nineteen thirty seven. In nineteen thirty eight, austria was occupied by nazi germany, and so the office in viana became a chinese consulate for germany. Shortly afterwards, an international conference was held in aviion lesbians france, with the hope of opening the doors for jewish refugees to leave germany. Instead, the conference had the opposite effect. No agreement was reached in most of the countries which attended, refused to accept jewish refugees. Then on the night of november ninth, the infamous Crystal light Crystal night occurred where ruthless nazi paramilitary terrors ized the jews, destroying jewish businesses and sAnitary. This trigger chaos is jews thought to leave germany. However, all the doors seen shut. There was one small hope for many juice shanghai in those days, as an international city, no vises or documents were needed to enter the municipality. The problem was that even though shanghai did not require a VISA, refugees needed to show that they had a valid destination VISA to be eligible to leave germany. In practice, once the refugees left germany, they could immigrate to any place that would take them. They just wanted to leave nazi germany, who had great sympathy for refugees who wanted to leave germany. Consequently, he decided to give visas to whoever replied IT is not known how many shanghai visas who issued IT is known that he issued nearly two thousand of them by october nineteen thirty eight and thousands more until he was transferred back to china in nineteen forty. IT was just natural to feel compassion for those persecuted and help them. IT was what had to be done whole, said later. He continued to serve as a diplomat until he retired and went to live in 3Francisco in nineteen seventy three，where he died in nineteen ninety seven. During his own lifetime, not only did host deeds go completely unrecognized, but even his own family was unaware of his efforts. However, after his death, his daughter discovered the party played in rescuing so many people and decided to investigate. This has LED to widespread international recognition of his heroic ism. And in two thousand, the israeli organization, yet vossian the world holocaust remembrance center, honor him as righteous among the nations.