Nicholas Winton
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title:
Nicholas Winton
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Sir Nicholas George Winton was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue Jewish children who were at risk of being murdered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Born to German-Jewish parents who had immigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton assisted in the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. On a brief visit to Czechoslovakia, he helped compile a list of children needing rescue and, returning to
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British banker and humanitarian (1909–2015)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton
date created:
2005-07-10T03:37:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T23:27:30Z
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