'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. Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.