已故女爵士埃斯特·兰岑（Dame Esther Rantzen）享年86岁，她最让人铭记的或许是主持了BBC系列节目《这就是生活！》。尽管该节目播出了二十年，但其中有一集给许多人留下了深刻印象。
Dame Esther Rantzen, who has died at the age of 86, will perhaps be best remembered for presenting the BBC series That's Life! While the programme ran for two decades, one episode in particular stands out for many.
她在1973年至1994年间主持了这档广受欢迎的BBC第一台节目，吸引了庞大的收视群。
She presented the hugely popular BBC One show from 1973 to 1994, drawing in huge audiences.
埃斯特女爵士职业生涯中最难忘的时刻之一出现在1988年的一集节目中——近年来，这段影像资料已在网上多次病毒式传播。
One of Dame Esther's most memorable career moments came during an episode in 1988 - the footage of which has gone viral several times over in recent years.
埃斯特女爵士当时听闻了尼古拉斯·温顿（Nicholas Winton）的故事，正是这个人组织营救了669名来自捷克斯洛伐克的儿童，该地区于1939年被纳粹军队占领。
Dame Esther had been told the story of Nicholas Winton, the man who had organised the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia, which was occupied in 1939 by Nazi forces.
在短暂访问布拉格后，尼古拉斯爵士成功营救了这群以犹太人为主的孩子。因其人道主义工作，他于2003年被册封为爵士。
Sir Nicholas was able to rescue the mainly Jewish cohort of children after briefly visiting Prague. He was knighted in 2003 for his humanitarian work.
尼古拉斯爵士的父母是德国犹太人，他列出了一份需要资助的儿童名单，并为他们找到了可以前往英国的住所。
Sir Nicholas, who was born to German-Jewish parents, made a list of the children that needed sponsorship and found homes for them to go to in Britain.
他在捷克斯洛伐克与活动人士及人道主义者合作，克服了复杂的政治障碍，比如通过已经对犹太难民关闭边界的荷兰将孩子们送往英国。
He worked alongside activists and humanitarians in Czechoslovakia to navigate complex political obstacles, such as getting children to Britain through the Netherlands, which had closed its borders to Jewish refugees.
由于英国下议院在其实施救援任务前几个月通过了一项允许年轻难民入境的决议，尼古拉斯爵士最终取得了成功。
Sir Nicholas was ultimately successful due to a House of Commons ruling on allowing young refugees in the country, which had been passed a couple of months before his rescue mission began.
在他的母亲的帮助下，他将孩子们的照片刊登在《画报》（Picture Post）等英国杂志上，以帮助他们寻找家园，并安排了收容所来接收部分难民。
With the help of his mother, he put photos of the children in British magazines such as Picture Post to help find them homes and organised for hostels to take in some refugees too.
他设法筹集资金以支付孩子们的旅费，并在他们踏上英国土地时为他们提供生活必需品。
He managed to raise money to cover travel for the children and provide them with essentials when they reached British soil.
他的伟大壮举在近50年的时间里几乎不为人知——直到他的妻子在阁楼里发现了一本剪贴簿，里面记录了他所救助的孩子们的姓名。
His incredible work went largely unreported for nearly 50 years - until his wife found a scrapbook in their loft, which contained names of children he had rescued.
这本剪贴簿被交给了大屠杀研究人员，他们帮助追踪找到了他曾帮助过的一些孩子。
It was given to Holocaust researchers, who helped track down some of the children he had helped.
尼古拉斯爵士的故事成为了全国性的新闻话题，这要归功于他于1988年2月出现在《That’s Life!》节目中，当时埃丝特·兰特岑女爵士向观众讲述了他的故事。
Sir Nicholas' story became national news when he appeared on That's Life! in February 1988 and Dame Esther Rantzen told viewers about his story.
在2024年2月的采访中，埃丝特女爵士回忆说，当她第一次与尼古拉斯爵士（她称他为“尼基”）取得联系时，她“祝贺他取得了这一了不起的成就”。她告诉《Radio Times》，尼古拉斯爵士对自己的努力感到有些失望，认为“拯救的人还不够多”。
Speaking in February 2024, Dame Esther said when she first got in touch with Sir Nicholas, who she called Nicky, she "congratulated him on his extraordinary achievement". She told The Radio Times he had expressed some disappointment about his efforts, commenting that "not enough" people had been saved.
“他觉得自己失败了，这让我非常难过。我想向他证明：他拯救的每一个生命都是无比珍贵的，”埃丝特女爵士补充道。她邀请尼古拉斯爵士参加《That’s Life!》节目，在他的首次亮相中，他的剪贴簿被展示给了观众；另外两位他小时候救下的女性——维拉·吉辛和米莱娜·格伦费尔-贝恩斯女士——也在电视上公开了自己的身份。她们分别坐在尼古拉斯爵士的两侧，而他完全不知道这个惊喜的存在——埃丝特女爵士称这一幕“令人感动至极”。
"I was devastated that he felt he had failed. I wanted to prove to this extraordinary man that every life he had saved was precious," Dame Esther added. She invited him onto That's Life and during his first appearance, his scrapbook was shared with the audience, and two women he had saved as children - Vera Gissing and Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines - revealed their identities to him on TV. They were sitting either side of Sir Nicholas, who had no idea of the surprise - something Dame Esther recalled as "incredibly moving".
米莱娜·格伦费尔-贝恩斯女士是英国最著名的纳粹大屠杀幸存者之一。她九岁时与妹妹伊娃一起从布拉格出发，乘坐温顿组织安排的特别列车逃离了那里。在母亲于次年从挪威抵达之前，姐妹俩一直由泰姆塞德地区的一户家庭照顾。维拉·吉辛于1939年（11岁时）从布拉格被救出，她在纳粹大屠杀中失去了大部分家人，战后定居在了英国。
Lady Milena is one of the most well-recognised Holocaust survivors in the UK. She left Prague with her younger sister Eva at the age of nine, travelling on a special train arranged by Winton. The two sisters were looked after by a Tameside family until their mother arrived the following year, having escaped via Norway. Gissing, who was rescued from Prague in 1939 at the age of 11, lost most of her family during the Holocaust and ended up settling in the UK after the war ended.
“那是我职业生涯中唯一一次不得不中断录制、去擦眼泪的时刻，”埃丝特女爵士回忆道。
"That was the only time in my career when I had to stop recording to wipe away my tears," Dame Esther also said.
《That’s Life!》节目组随后收到了几位观众的来信，他们观看了节目后发现自己与尼古拉斯爵士有着共同的经历。这个发现激发了节目组的灵感，最终促成了英国电视史上最著名的节目片段之一。
The production team at That's Life were then contacted by several viewers who had watched the show and realised their connection to Sir Nicholas. That gave the show's team an idea which would go on to become one of British television's most famous moments.
“在接下来的节目中，我请所有因他而保住性命的人起立，我们安排坐在前排的尼基回过头去，看到电视剧场的整个底层观众全都站了起来，”埃丝特爵士回忆道。
"In our next episode, I asked all those who owed their lives to him to stand, and Nicky, whom we had seated on the front row, turned to see the whole ground floor of the Television Theatre on their feet," Dame Esther recalled.
这是许多人都会铭记的电视时刻，而在随后的几年里，多亏了社交媒体，它又被新的观众群体重新发现。
This is a TV moment many will remember and in subsequent years has been rediscovered by new audiences thanks to social media.
埃丝特爵士表示，她“看过很多次”那一集节目，“每一次都发现自己深受感动”。
Dame Esther said she watched the episode "many times" and "each time found myself deeply moved".
她说她与尼古拉斯爵士保持着联系，经常见面，直到他在2015年以106岁的高龄去世。
She says she kept in contact with Sir Nicholas, meeting regularly until his death in 2015 at the age of 106.
由于这个电视节目，他们之间始终保持着某种联系，但埃丝特爵士说，倾听他所救的孩子们的故事，也让她感到“无比幸运”，觉得自己是个生于20世纪40年代英格兰的犹太人。
They would always have a connection due to the TV show, but Dame Esther said hearing the stories of the children he had saved also made her feel "immensely lucky" to have been a Jew born in England in the 1940s.
尼古拉斯爵士的事迹一直是多部电影和纪录片的主题，最近的一部是传记片《同一生命》（One Life）。
Sir Nicholas' work has been the subject of a number of different films and documentaries, most recently the biopic One Life.
该片由安东尼·霍普金斯爵士主演，在多伦多电影节首映，并于2024年1月在英国上映。
Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins the film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was released in the UK in January 2024.
埃丝特爵士表示，据估计“有6000人完全是因为尼古拉斯·温顿才得以存在”。
Dame Esther said it had been estimated "that 6, 000 people owe their very existence to Nicholas Winton".
她补充道：“尼基营救的犹太儿童几乎是捷克斯洛伐克唯-在大屠杀中幸存下来的人。”
She added: "The Jewish children Nicky rescued were almost the only ones in Czechoslovakia to survive the Holocaust".
正是由于埃丝特爵士在《这就是生活！》（That's Life!）节目中向观众讲述了他的故事，数百万人才知道了尼古拉斯爵士所产生的巨大影响。
And thanks to Dame Esther relaying his story to viewers on That's Life!, millions of people are now aware of the huge impact Sir Nicholas had.