Nicholas Winton
Banker, Chivalric Order Member
1909 –
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Who is Nicholas Winton?
Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE is a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War, in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. The UK press has dubbed him the "British Schindler".
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- Born
- May 19, 1909
Hampstead - Also known as
- Sir Nicholas George Winton
- Nicholas George Wertheim
- Nicholas George Winton
- Sir Nicholas Winton
- Britain's Schindler
- British Schindler
- Spouses
- Grete Winton
(1948 - 1999)
- Grete Winton
- Religion
- Pentecostalism
- Protestantism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Stowe School
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on July 23, 2013
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