Posted on 07/01/2015 9:10:04 AM PDT by NRx
Sir Nicholas Winton, who organised the rescue of Jewish children from the Holocaust in 1939, has died aged 106, his family said.
Winton earned himself the label "Britain's Schindler" for saving the lives of 669 children by sending them from Prague to London by train.
His son-in-law Stephen Watson said Sir Nicholas died peacefully in his sleep at Wexham Hospital in Slough.
Sir Nicholas rarely spoke of his achievements in the decades after the Second World War, believing his actions to be unremarkable. But he kept a scrapbook with details and photographs of the children he saved.
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What a great man.RIP.
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