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Nicholas Winton Is Dead at 106; Saved Children from the Holocaust

NEW YORK TIMES By Robert D. McFadden July 1, 2015 Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War … Continue reading

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Nicholas Winton honoured by Czechs for saving children from Nazis

BBC NEWS October 28, 2014 A British man who saved 669 children, most of them Jews, from the Nazis has been awarded the Czech Republic’s highest state honour. Sir Nicholas Winton was 29 when he arranged trains to take the … Continue reading

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