A really amazing person

Today we set sail for jolly old England to
tell this tale, but before we do we have
to ask…

If you had saved 669 children from World
War II could you keep it a secret?

This man did. Meet Sir Nicholas Winton of
Hampstead, London England. And on the eve of
the Second World War he organized the rescue
of 669 children from German-occupied
Czechoslovakia, got them safe passage to
Britain, and found homes for them.

The UK press called him the “British
Schindler”. His operation was later known as
the Czech Kindertransport, and the children
saved were mostly Jewish.

in 1983 he was appointed a Member of the
Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his
work in establishing the Abbeyfield homes
for the elderly in Britain.

In 1988 his wife Gete found a scrapbook in
their attic that was so detailed it listed
the children, their parent’s names, and the
names of the families that took them in.

During a 1988 episode of the BBC program
‘That’s Life’, the world learned of his
humanitarians efforts. He also met some of
those children that he saved.

In 2002 in the New Years Honours, he was
knighted in recognition of his work on the
Czech Kindertransport.

In 2003 he received the Pride of Britain
Award for Lifetime Achievement.

In 2008 the Czech government named a school
after him and awarded him the Cross of Merit
of the Minister of Defense, Grade 1. He was
also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 2009 he celebrated his 100th birthday by
flying over the White Waltham Airfield in a
microlight piloted by the daughter of one
of the boys he saved.

He has been the subject of three films, one
play, and is now 104 years old! What a
wonderful life.
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