Nicholas Winton dead at 106, saved hundreds of children during the Holocaust
British humanitarian Nicholas Winton has died. He was 106 years old. Winton was a British stock broker in the 1930s, who organized the rescue of hundreds of mostly Jewish children…
By Avishay Artsy • • 1 min readNicholas Winton holds a child in a train station in Prague in 1939. Winton helped save more than 650 childen by getting them out of Czechoslovakia before the Nazis arrived.
Courtesy Nicholas Winton
British humanitarian Nicholas Winton has died. He was 106 years old.
Winton was a British stock broker in the 1930s, who organized the rescue of hundreds of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
It happened right as Allied forces were getting ready to fight in World War II.
One of those kids was the mother of KCRW’s Kim Masters, who interviewed Winton about 7 years ago in London for NPR.
She spoke to KCRW’s Steve Chiotakis about Winton’s remarkable life.