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Hitler\u2019s mission was to eradicate the Jewish people from not only Germany but around the world.\u00a0 He considered the Jews to be an inferior race, who set out to weaken other races and take over the world.\u00a0\u00a0 During his genocide of European Jews during World War II his supporters and him took almost six million Jewish lives.\u00a0 Wiping out two-thirds of Europe\u2019s Jewish population.\u00a0 Out of these six million, 1.5 million were children.\u00a0 The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps.<\/p>\n
However, there was one man instrumental in ruining Hitler\u2019s plans by saving 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1938, transporting them via train from Prague to Britain: Sir Nicolas Winton.\u00a0 Those 669 children have turned into 6,000 today after being given the chance to live and grow families of their own.\u00a0 His name was Sir Nicolas Winton, knighted\u00a0by Queen\u00a0Elizabeth II, and he lived to be 106.\u00a0 His story, if left untold, would have died with him.\u00a0 Besides the phenomenal cast starring Anthony Hopkins, along with the incredible Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter, and Tim Seed, and Director James Hawes, the triumph of One Life<\/em><\/strong> is keeping Sir Nicolas Winton\u2019s story alive for generations to come.\u00a0\u00a0 One Life<\/em><\/strong> (PG) is set to debut March 15th<\/sup> in theaters and is perhaps the most powerful family movie of the year.<\/p>\n There are four sides to the Holocaust, those that played along with Hitler out of fear and brainwash, those that buried their heads in the sand ignoring the surrounding tragedies, those that were victims of his insanity, and those that did not look away, but acted.\u00a0 Sir Nicolas \u201cNicky\u201d Winton was a member of the latter group and should be considered a hero.\u00a0 He was a stockbroker, played by Johnny Flynn, from London who led a comfortable life.\u00a0 On the surface, he was the last person you would think would risk his life, plan, and orchestrate the rescuing of almost 1,000 child refugees from Prague.\u00a0 On the inside, he was a reflection of his parents\u2019 upbringing and intrinsic faith.\u00a0 Born to\u00a0German-Jewish\u00a0parents who had emigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century; he considered himself \u201cagnostic and a socialist\u201d, both of which he was far from.\u00a0 Staring evil in the face he was a living example of natural conviction and sovereignty.\u00a0 His mother, played by Helena Bonham Carter, continued to serve as an instrumental component to the rescue mission.<\/p>\n The movie portrays the hurdles and obstructions his team and him lived through trying to race time before the Nazis took an \u201cadministrative position\u201d, as they called it, and invaded starting World War II.\u00a0 These families of refugees fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion.\u00a0 And \u201cNicky\u201d appreciated that if he could do something at all he had to, so he did.<\/p>\n Fifty years later he finds himself continuously haunted by the recollection of the 250 plus children he couldn\u2019t save and wondering if the 669 he did lead fulfilled lives.\u00a0 One Life<\/em><\/strong> exposes \u201cNicky\u2019s\u201d enormous difficulty in revisiting the memories and was tormented about the thought of what had become of the children that were taken.\u00a0 The grief of the memories he had been carried for fifty years was so strong he seemed to hurt physically.\u00a0 Anthony Hopkins conveyed this anguish and pain in such a way that you stopped breathing with him during his flashbacks.\u00a0 With the push from his wife, played by, Lena Olin, to \u201clet go\u201d, his healing only arrived after his story was shared through a live BBC television program in 1987 called \u201cThat\u2019s Life\u201d.<\/p>\n His heart was calmed after he was reunited with the refugee children he liberated.\u00a0 Even more, through the words of a refugee reiterating that not only did he save 669 and give hope for a moment to the 250 lost, but he saved the souls of the parents who were tormented with the idea that their children would be taken and die.\u00a0 One of the refugee children reminded him that, \u201cfor a mother, knowing your children are safe is everything.\u201d<\/p>\n One Life<\/em><\/strong> reminds us all that it only takes \u201cone life to save the world\u201d.<\/p>\n Brittany Stewart, an accomplished writer and educator, draws inspiration from her 23-year marriage and upbringing near Lake Tahoe in Verdi, Nevada, now residing in Tucson, Arizona. With her Bachelor\u2019s degree in Education, emphasizing Native American Literature and Journalism, Brittany is a multifaceted professional who is also a Licensed Massage Therapist. She is deeply involved in Tucson\u2019s homeschooling community, leading a homeschool group, teaching dance, and offering art classes. She and her family have a homestead in Southern Arizona, where her husband hunts and she tends to the garden, emphasizing the importance of God and family in her life while continually seeking adventure through her travels.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n