I was going to make this a "Tweet of the Day," since it comes from a tweet -- but it's to substantial for just that. As the note describes, it concerns Sir Nicholas Winton who saved many hundreds of children from Germany. The shame is that this is only a few minutes, because I'm sure the full TV program at the heart of this would have been especially moving and wonderful. Happily, this is plenty good.
It also puts in deeper perspective the previous administration taking children away from their parents and putting them in cages. Elsewhere on Mr. Simanowitz's timeline, he had a quote from Nicholas Winton, who passed away in 2015 at the well-earned age of 106. "Don't be content in your life to just do no wrong. Be prepared every day to try to do some good."
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ken kahn
4/13/2021 03:24:29 pm
There is a documentary titled "Nicky's Family" available on YouTube
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Robert Elisberg
4/14/2021 09:10:16 am
Ken, Thanks much for the information and link.
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That is the actual link to the full documentary. I think the difference is I paid the $1.99 rental fee so I can watch the full movie. I guess the default is to only show the trailer. I wish I had known about it being on Amazon so I could have watched it for free with my Prime account.
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Robert Elisberg
4/14/2021 04:11:40 pm
I guess this is semantics, but I wanted to be clear to my readers expecting to see the full documentary. And I repeat this for them so they're not confused -- the URL above is a link to the trailer alone. The trailer is the only thing that will run directly from that link. There is a separate link *within the video* window for those who want to rent the documentary, but renting the full documentary is a separate procedure involving clicking on this other link and entering your credit card information. The link above only directly plays the trailer. Leave a Reply. |
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