Posted on 07/01/2015 8:45:00 AM PDT by Borges
Nicholas Winton, a humanitarian who almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust, earning himself the label "Britain's Schindler," has died. He was 106.
Son-in-law Stephen Watson said Winton died on Wednesday. The Rotary Club of Maidenhead, of which Winton was a former president, said his daughter Barbara and two grandchildren were at his side.
Winton arranged trains to carry children from Nazi-occupied Prague to Britain, battling bureaucracy at both ends and saving them from almost certain death — and then kept quiet about his exploits for a half-century.
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Wow, there must be lots of beneficiaries still living! Wonderful achievement!
May G-d rest his kind soul and give him the reward he deserves for saving so many innocents...and the descendants of those innocents. May He also give comfort to this man’s family, who have lost an irreplaceable part of their lives.
The documentary ‘Nicky’s Family’ is available on NetFlix, DVD and streaming
Amen.
RIP.
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