'British Schindler' reunited with WWII evacueesA former stockbroker hailed as the "British Schindler" enjoyed an emotional reunion Friday with mostly Jewish former evacuees Resident or transient persons who have been ordered or authorized to move by competent authorities, and whose movement and accommodation are planned, organized and controlled by such authorities. whom he helped flee from the Nazis as children 70 years ago. Nicholas Winton Sir Nicholas Winton MBE (born May 19 1909) is a Briton who organized the rescue of about 669 mostly Jewish Czech children from their doomed fate in the Nazi death camps prior to the outbreak of World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport. , now aged 100 and knighted as Sir Nicholas, organised trains which brought some 669 children out of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia between March and September 1939. His actions are considered to have saved them from the concentration camps. Twenty-two of those evacuees this week made the journey again from Prague -- now the capital of European Union member state A European Union member state is any one of the twenty-seven countries that have joined the European Union (EU) since its inception in 1958 as the European Economic Community (EEC). the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. -- via their original route through Germany and the Netherlands, to mark the milestone. "This is much harder work than it was 70 years ago," Winton told several hundred evacuees, relatives and wellwishers gathered as the steam-powered Winton Train arrived at London's Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a major railway station and connected London Underground station in the north eastern corner of the City of London in England. . "Seventy years ago it was a question of getting a lot of little children together with the families that were going to look after them... it's wonderful that it did work out so well because, after all, history could have made it very different," he added. Vera Gissing arrived in London just before her 11th birthday. "I'll never forget it. I arrived with my sister... It was scary and remained scary for quite some time, but of course it was a big step in our life," she said. Hailing Winton -- likened to German businessman Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a Sudeten German industrialist credited with saving almost 1,200[1] Jews during the Holocaust, by having them work in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in Poland and what is now the Czech Republic. , whose rescue inspired a novel and the multiple Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List" -- she said: "He saved so many lives. "It's amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. today to be meeting all the friends and realising how lucky we were." Winton told the evacuees: "It's wonderful to see you all after 70 years. Don't leave it quite so long until we meet here again. Anyway, I am glad you are all here and it's wonderful for me to meet so many of you." 
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