One Life: a refugee from the Nazis on her story and Anthony Hopkins' film about Nicholas Winton
It is the story about the bread that really gets me; a story I keep thinking about for days after I have heard it. The sort of story that stays with you.
I have spent the afternoon at the Rosewood Hotel in Holborn, where the people involved in making Sir Anthony Hopkins' new film One Life have congregated.
It is an incredibly moving piece of work, centred on the former British stockbroker Sir Nicholas Winton who, on seeing the horrors that were unfolding during the Second World War, took it upon himself to do whatever he could to get as many young children out of Nazi Germany as he could.
In an operation that later became known as the Kindertransport, he managed to get 669 kids from Czechoslovakia to safety: his actions only coming to the attention of
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