'One Life' Film Promotions Revised After Jewish Erasure Claims
Promotional materials for the Anthony Hopkins film now acknowledge that the majority of children saved by Nicholas Winton from the Nazis were Jewish.
- Promotional materials for the film 'One Life', starring Anthony Hopkins, have been edited to acknowledge that the majority of the children saved by Nicholas Winton from the Nazis were Jewish.
- The initial descriptions used the term 'Central European' to describe the children, leading to accusations of Jewish erasure.
- The film tells the story of Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, the majority of whom were Jewish.
- Retailer HMV, Warner Bros, and the BBC were among those who updated their descriptions to specify that the children were 'predominantly Jewish'.
- The film's producers and distributors have stressed that there was no intention to cause offence or to erase the Jewish identity of the children.