A Holocaust Without Jews?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
An unsung hero of the twentieth century was Sir Nicholas Winton. Winton secured visas to Britain for 700 mostly Jewish children in the late 1930s, saving them from being victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
For decades, Winton's work went unnoticed for the simple fact that he didn't tell anyone. Decades later his secret was discovered and revealed to the world. In fact, there's an actual video clip online of the then-grown children thanking Winton.
Now, a new movie to be released later this year, starring Anthony Hopkins, tells the story. Yet, all the early press releases and a number of articles fail to mention that the children who were saved were Jews, either ignoring that detail entirely or calling them "Central European."
The children weren't in danger because of where they lived. They were in danger because of who they were. Whether because of antisemitism or a seeking not to offend, erasing Jews from a story about the Holocaust is itself evil.
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| 0:00.0 | With a |
| 0:04.1 | point look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. An unsung |
| 0:05.0 | hero of the 20th century was Sir Nicholas Winton. In the late 1930s he secured |
| 0:09.3 | visas to Britain for 700 children, saving them from being victims of the Nazi Holocaust. |
| 0:14.2 | For decades his work went on notice for the simple fact he didn't tell anyone. |
| 0:18.0 | Decades later his secret was discovered and revealed to the world on national TV. |
| 0:21.9 | In fact there's an actual video clip online of the then-grown |
| 0:25.0 | children thanking Winton. And now a new movie to be released later this year starring Anthony Hopkins |
| 0:30.2 | tells the story. And yet, most of the early press releases and a number of |
| 0:34.3 | articles about it failed to mention that the children saved were Jews either |
| 0:38.5 | ignoring the detail entirely or calling them Central European. |
| 0:42.6 | But of course they were never in danger because of where they live. |
| 0:45.2 | They were in danger because of who they were. |
| 0:47.4 | Whether because of anti-Semitism or just seeking not to offend, |
| 0:50.4 | erasing Jews from a story about the Holocaust is itself evil. |
| 0:55.0 | For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
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