The new Nicky’s Family, opening in the Los Angeles area next Friday, tells the incredibly moving but heretofore almost forgotten story of Sir Nicholas (Nicky) Winston. If it was Oskar Schindler who caught the spotlight, it is high time that Winston joins his place among the Yad Vashem—the term reserved for the righteous gentiles who risked their lives to rescue thousands of Jews from the fate awaiting them in the death camps of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and numerous other factories of extermination.
The documentary begins with the finding of a dust-collecting scrapbook detailing Winston’s heroic efforts to bring 669 children to England and thus spawn literally thousands more who truly owe their very lives to the British Schindler.
Told in flashback and vignettes effectively re-staged by professional actors, we are left awed by the far-reaching consequences of one man’s quiet determination to make a difference and not stand idly by as so much of the world was guilty of. To see Winston, now age 104, reacting with dignified emotion, as he is paid tribute by the survivors, children and grandchildren of his efforts, is to realize the potential of the human spirit at its best and most profoundly moving.
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Nicky’s Family opens Friday, July 19th in Los Angeles, Encino, Pasadena, Santa Monica and Claremont. See this film and please take your children so that they too will “never forget”.
