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The Times of India
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TOI World Desk

Holocaust hero’s viral BBC moment: Decades-old Nicholas Winton clip resurfaces

British humanitarian Nicholas Winton's decades-old television clip continues to resurface online, drawing widespread emotional responses across generations. The footage, originally broadcast on the BBC programme That’s Life! in 1988, captures the moment Winton realises that several members of the studio audience were among the 669 Jewish children he helped rescue from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia before the Second World War.

The clip regularly circulates on social media, particularly around Holocaust Remembrance Day or during renewed global debates on refugees and migration. Despite its age and low visual quality, the video continues to attract millions of views, comments and shares each time it reappears online.

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