'Britain's Schindler' Is Remembered By Those He Saved From The Nazis

He was a young British stockbroker, when in December 1938, he cancelled a trip to go skiing in Switzerland, and instead went to visit a friend in Prague, who was helping refugees fleeing from the Nazis. That visit changed his life — and many others.

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Nicholas Winton Is Dead at 106; Saved Children From the Holocaust

Nicholas 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.

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