The extraordinary story of an ordinary man. Nicholas Winton saved the lives of 669 children, mostly Jews, in 1939.
For more than fifty years he jealously guarded his secret. Until 1988 when his wife discovered that leather briefcase. She took its invaluable contents to a Holocaust historian, then the wife of Robert Maxwell, then a British journalism magnate. This was how his country first and the entire world later learned of the feat of Winton. The film “Ties of Life” celebrates Winton's story.