Re: [sijcccampontheweb] Great Article - 70 years later

many of those he saved, he is unambiguously a hero. It is estimated there are 5,000 people around the world who owe their lives to Winton — the children he saved and their descendants.

"He doesn't think that what he did was a big deal," said Marianne Wolfson, 85, who traveled from her home in Chicago to make the anniversary journey. "But we got our life back."

She and the others traveled from Prague to the Netherlands aboard vintage German and Hungarian railway coaches pulled by 1930s steam locomotives. After crossing the North Sea by ferry, they completed the journey in a refurbished British steam train.

Other survivors who did not make the rail trip from Prague gathered at the station to meet the train.

The children Winton saved include the late British filmmaker Karel Reisz, who directed "The French Lieutenant's Woman;" Joe Schlesinger, a one-time Associated Press translator who became a prominent Canadian TV journalist; British lawmaker and peer Alfred Dubs, and Dagmar Simova, a cousin of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, according to the documentary Web site.

"It's amazing. It happened so many years ago, yet I remember it so vividly," said Otto Deutsch, 81, who now lives in Southend in southern England. "I never saw my parents again, or my sister. My parents were shot and what they did with my sister, I really don't want to know."

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Associated Press Writer Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.

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On the Net: http://wintontrain.eu/en/site/uvodni(underscore)stranka.htm

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