From Sir Nicholas Winton to Major Frank Foley: British heroes of the Holocaust trends now
They were the British heroes who helped rescue thousands of Jewish children from the Holocaust.
Sir Nicholas Winton's part in saving 669 children from Czechoslovakia - an act that was revealed in a moving segment of the BBC's That's Life programme in 1988 - saw some call him Britain's Schindler.
Yet his feats would not have been possible without the help of 'Purbeck Schindler' Trevor Chadwick, who remained in Prague to organise the departures of children to Britain.
And Sir Nicholas and Chadwick were just two of 27 individuals who were honoured by the Government in 2010 for helping to rescue would-be Holocaust victims.
They also included Major Frank Foley, Scottish missionary Jane Haining and Bertha Lilian Bracey.
Below, as the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, MailOnline delves into their feats.
Nicholas Winton and 'Purbeck Schindler' Trevor Chadwick
Nicholas Winton played an instrumental role in rescuing 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in the months before the Second World War. Above: Winton with one of the children he rescued
Nicholas Winton and Trevor Chadwick played an instrumental role in rescuing 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in the months before the Second World War.
The pair met in Prague when they were both working as volunteers in helping children from Jewish families at risk from the Nazis.
Returning to Britain six weeks before Czechoslovakia's occupation by the Nazis, Winton helped to compile a list of Jewish children needing rescue and then found them homes and sponsors in Britain.
Despite his incredible feat, Sir Nicholas, who was a stockbroker, lived in relative anonymity until February 1988, when he appeared on BBC programme That's Life. Above: Winton meets Vera Gissing, one of the children he saved
During that famous broadcast, presenter Esther Rantzen asked: 'Is there anybody in our audience tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton? If so, can you stand up please.' After a short pause, four rows of middle-aged people stood up. All of them owed their lives to Sir Nicholas
The operation famously became known as the Kindertransport, after the British government agreed that the children could come to Britain.
Whilst Winton worked from the UK, Chadwick remained in Czechoslovakia to help organise the trains needed to get children out of the country.
Chadwick stayed even after the Nazi occupation, negotiating with the Gestapo to obtain exit permits for the children to leave Prague.
The evacuation of children continued until the beginning of the war on September 1, 1939.
Sir Nicholas worked closely with Trevor Chadwick (above), who was later dubbed the Purbeck Schindler
Winton later spoke of his deep regret that a final trainload of children never left Czechoslovakia, with nearly all of the youngsters dying in the Holocaust.
Speaking of Chadwick, Sir Nicholas later said: 'Chadwick did the more difficult and dangerous work after the Nazis invaded... he deserves all praise.'
Despite his incredible feat, Sir Nicholas, who was a stockbroker, lived in relative anonymity until February 1988, when he appeared on BBC programme That's Life.
Producers of the programme had got hold of Sir Nicholas's scrapbook, which recounted his rescue of the Jewish children.
As he sat in the front row on That's Life, the audience and viewers at home were told his life story.
Near the end of the show, he was introduced to two women, Vera Gissing and Milena Grenfell-Baines, whose lives he had saved.
Producers then asked Sir Nicholas to come to the following Sunday's show. He agreed, but he said he wanted to bring his wife.
During that famous broadcast, presenter Esther Rantzen asked: 'Is there anybody in our audience tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton? If so, can you stand up please.'
After a short pause, four rows of middle-aged people stood up. All of them owed their lives to Sir Nicholas.
He stood up slowly, turned round, and couldn't quite believe how many there were.
He acknowledged them all and then sat down to wipe away tears.
Children saved by Sir Nicholas include Labour peer Alf Dubs, and poet Gerder Meyer.
Sir Nicholas, who was knighted in 2003, died aged 106 in 2015.
After the war Chadwick moved to Norway capital city Oslo with his German wife Sigrid, who was 28 years his junior, and took a job as an academic publisher.
He originally chose the city for its fresh air, in the hope it would ease his frequently relapsing Tuberculosis.
He stayed there for the rest of his life until he died in 1979.
Sir Nicholas died in 2015 aged 106. Above: He is seen on the day he received the Order of White Lion, the highest order of the Czech Republic
Albert Bedane
Albert Bedane provided shelter to a Jewish woman in Jersey, when it was occupied by the Nazis along with the rest of the Channel Islands.
Bedane, a physiotherapist, also took the huge risk of
