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'Nicky & Vera' tells story of an Englishman who saved hundreds of kids during the Holocaust

A children’s book, “Nicky & Vera,” tells the true story of Nicholas “Nicky” Winton, an Englishman who saved 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1938.

NPR’s Elizabeth Blair reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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