Nicholas Winton

Nicholas Winton, Rescuer of 669 Children From Holocaust, Dies at 106

By ROBERT D. McFADDENJULY 1, 2015

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A family picture of Nicholas Winton with one of the hundreds of Jewish children whose lives he saved during World War II. CreditPress Association, via Associated PressNicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, a righteous deed like those of Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, died on Wednesday in Maidenhead, England. He was 106.

The Rotary Club of Maidenhead, of which Mr. Winton
was a former president, announced his death on its
website. He lived in Maidenhead, west of London./.../