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David Langbart, an archivist at the National Archives, was watching 60 Minutes when he saw a program about Sir Nicholas Winton, a stockbroker in London who saved 669 Czech children-- most of them Jewish--from the Nazis during WWII. Winton had written a letter to President Roosevelt, asking the United States take in some of the children. The refugees did not come to America, and after 75 years, Wintons letter was thought lost. But Langbart was now curious about the letter--and after some archival sleuthing, he found it!
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 17:21:17 +0000

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