BRIAN VINER: In a week of horror, the hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children is the best of humanity
By Brian Viner
Published: 20:18 EDT, 13 October 2023 | Updated: 20:30 EDT, 13 October 2023
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The European premiere of One Life at the London Film Festival this week felt remarkably timely.
James Hawes’s drama is about the best of humanity, which arrives as we continue to digest news about the worst of humanity.
More specifically, in a week in which hundreds of Jewish children have been massacred, here is a tale about hundreds of Jewish children being saved, thanks to the tireless efforts of numerous people, but above all a London stockbroker called Nicholas Winton, played in old age by Sir Anthony Hopkins and as a young man by Johnny Flynn.
The film’s title is lifted from an old Hebrew proverb which suggests that ‘if you save one life you save the world’.
Its narrative flits back and forth between the late 1930s and the late 1980s. In 1938 and 1939, we see Winton spearheading British attempts to extract children from the Czech capital Prague ahead of a German invasion that everyone knew was imminent.
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There are a number of people who stepped up at tremendous personal cost to save Jews from the Nazis prior to and during WW2.
The comparison between this week’s murders by Hamas and the actions of the Nazis makes the Nazis look “better”. The Nazis kept their actions secret because they knew that they were wrong. By comparison, the Hamas terrorists claim that they are doing Allah’s work without shame.
Now let’s compare all the folks before, during, and after WW2 who were willfully ignorant or down right obstructive of saving their fellow humans to the people today who are doing something similar.
IMHO, there is NO possible excuse for what Hamas did to all these victims. Especially the babies and children.
While I have very little power and influence, I pray for their safety and well-being and have no difficulty expression my revulsion for Hamas sympathizers.
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