In the winter of 1938, Englishman Nicholas Winton was preparing for a snowy, fun-filled vacation to Switzerland when his friend, Martin Blake, sent him a letter with a vague, but intriguing invitation:
"I have a most interesting assignment and I need your help. Don't bother bringing your skis."
It would be that very letter and that very invitation that ultimately turned Winton, an otherwise unextraordinary stockbroker, into a socialist hero, credited with saving the lives of 669 Jewish children during the Holocaust.