With the situation growing more threatening every day, Winton knew the best way to protect the children would be to get them out as quickly as possible. In order to do so, he established a children’s section of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia. Initially, he was not authorized to do so. Winton maneuvered around these restrictive institutions by forging documents where he simply copied their original header and adding “children’s section” to the bottom. As soon as he did this, he began taking applications from parents of Jewish children at his hotel in Prague. From there, he opened an office in central Prague. Thousands of parents began lining up outside of his office, begging him to help keep their children safe. After just a few weeks, he returned to central London. His mother headed the children’s section of his organization and this was the only way that he involved any member of his family throughout his resistance. Nicholas Winton wrote to President Roosevelt in America, asking for America to take children from Czechoslovakia but the States did not accept his request. His goal was to get as many children out of Czechoslovakia and to Great Britain before the outbreak of the war. The way that he chose to go about this was similar to the Kindertransport in
With the situation growing more threatening every day, Winton knew the best way to protect the children would be to get them out as quickly as possible. In order to do so, he established a children’s section of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia. Initially, he was not authorized to do so. Winton maneuvered around these restrictive institutions by forging documents where he simply copied their original header and adding “children’s section” to the bottom. As soon as he did this, he began taking applications from parents of Jewish children at his hotel in Prague. From there, he opened an office in central Prague. Thousands of parents began lining up outside of his office, begging him to help keep their children safe. After just a few weeks, he returned to central London. His mother headed the children’s section of his organization and this was the only way that he involved any member of his family throughout his resistance. Nicholas Winton wrote to President Roosevelt in America, asking for America to take children from Czechoslovakia but the States did not accept his request. His goal was to get as many children out of Czechoslovakia and to Great Britain before the outbreak of the war. The way that he chose to go about this was similar to the Kindertransport in