Helena Bonham Carter's maternal grandfather, Eduardo Proper de Callejon, also rescued many Jews from the Holocaust, by forging Spanish exit visas.
In the newspaper obituaries after Sir Nicholas Winton died on July 1st, 2015, the UK press headlines dubbed him 'The British Schindler'.
The film is based on the true story of Sir Nicholas Winton who saved 669 children's lives throughout 1938 and 1939.
The title refers to the quotation "He who saves one life, saves the world entire." This was quoted in
Schindler's List (1993), where it was stated, accurately, to be from the Talmud. It also appears in the Qur'an.
By the time of the 1918 creation of Czechoslovakia, and leading up to 1938, this new central European country, was divided by, at least, three minority nationals; Hungarians [Hungary], Ruthenians [Russia] and the Sudeten Germans [Germany; The Sudeten Germans were not affiliated to the German Reich but only to Austria]. The majority nationals were the Slovaks, who came to form a quarter of the Czechoslovakian state.