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Sir Nicholas Winton
(1909-2015)
Who Was Sir Nicholas Winton?
Sir Nicholas Winton was a 29-year-old stockbroker who in 1939 organized trains out of Prague to secure the safe passage of 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to England at the dawn of World War II.
The evacuees, later known as "Winton's Children," knew little about their rescuer until the 1980s, when his work finally came to light. He was knighted in 2003 and died on July 1, 2015, at the age of 106.
Early Life
Nicholas George Wertheim was born in London, England, on May 19, 1909.
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He was the oldest of three children whose parents, Rudolf and Barbara Wertheimer, were German Jews who later converted to Christianity and changed their last name to Winton.
Nicholas grew up with considerable means. His father was a successful banker who housed his family in a 20-room mansion in West Hampstead, London.
After attending Stowe School in Buckingham, Winton followed in his father's footsteps and apprenticed in