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Sir Nicholas Winton dies aged 106 (the British Schindler)
The Telegraph ^ | 07-01-2015 | Anita Singh

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: austria; czechoslovakia; holocaust; kindertransport; nicholaswinton; nicholaswintonmbe; obituary; obituries; prague; sirnicholaswinton; theholocaust; unitedkingdom
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To: NRx

What a great man.RIP.


21 posted on 07/02/2015 5:18:14 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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