Kindertransport success of ‘Britain’s Schindler’ celebrated in new film and exhibition

Film starring Johnny Flynn and Anthony Hopkins and photographs of Holocaust survivors pay tribute to courage of UK Kindertransport hero

The achievements of Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved the lives of 669 Kindertransport children by setting up an escape route from Germany, will be celebrated anew on New Year’s Day, with the release of the film One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins.

Young actors will be playing the small escapees on screen, alongside Johnny Flynn, cast as the young Winton. But the stories of the children are not over. A number of them still clearly remember the journey, and their faces, now captured for the National Portrait Gallery, provide a fresh and clear testament not just of their childhood trauma, but of the varied lives they went on to live.