Posted on 07/01/2015 12:56:43 PM PDT by the scotsman
'A WAR hero dubbed the ‘British Schindler’ who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis during the Second World War has died aged 106.
Nicholas Winton saved the lives of 669 Jewish children from the Holocaust by smuggling them out of Germany on trains on the eve of the war - saving them from almost certain death.
His son-in-law Stephen Watson said he died peacefully in his sleep at Wexham Hospital in Slough.
Sir Nicholas was a 29-year-old stock exchange clerk in 1938 when he began to fear that Jewish residents of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia would be sent to concentration camps.
He arranged trains to carry Jewish children from occupied Prague to Britain.
His heroic efforts saw him likened to German businessman Oskar Schindler, who saved around 1,200 Jewish lives during the war.
But remarkably, he then kept quiet about his exploits for a half-century.'
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
A genuine good guy. God rest his soul
RIP to this poor guy who probably spent his life haunted by the children he couldn’t save.
Wonderful story. Thank you for posting it.
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me.
‘If I could have spoken to those who committed the obscenity of Auschwitz and the Holocaust, I would have said “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ: Think it possible you may be mistaken”.’
—Scientist and philosopher Dr Jacob Bronowski, quote from his classic BBC documentary series The Ascent of Man, 1973,
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