Nicholas Winton

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Sir Nicholas George Winton, (born Wertheim, 1905 to 1 July 2015), was a British humanitarian who established a charity to save children at risk from Nazi Germany.

Winton, a German-Jewish couple who had immigrated to the United Kingdom, oversaw the rescue of 669 children, the majority of whom were Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. The children's safely arrived in the United Kingdom, and Winton found them at their homes.

This operation was later identified as the Czech Kindertransport (German for "children's carriage").

His work went unnoticed by the world for more than 50 years, until 1988, when he was invited to That's Life, where he reunited with several of the children that he had saved.

The British press praised him and dubbed him "British Schindler." Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to humanity" in rescuing Jewish children from Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia.

By Czech President Milo Zeman, he was awarded the Order of the White Lion (1st class) on October 28th, 2014.

He died in 2015 at the age of 106.

Early life

Winton was born in Hampstead, London, on 19 May 1909, to Jewish parents Rudolph Wertheim (1881-1937), a banker, and Barbara (née Wertheimer, 1888–1978) as the middle-born of their three children. Charlotte (1908-1908–2001) and his younger brother Robert (1914–2009). His parents were German Jews who had migrated to London two years earlier. Wertheim's family name was Wertheim, but they changed it to Winton in an attempt to reunite in an attempt to integrate. They also converted to Christianity, and Winton was baptized.

Winton had just started Stowe School in 1923. When volunteering at the Midland Bank, he left empty handed and attended night school. He went to Behrens Bank in Hamburg, where he worked at Behrens Bank, then followed by Wasserman Bank in Berlin. In 1931, he went to France and worked for the Banque Nationale de Crédit in Paris. He also obtained a banking degree in France. He became a broker on the London Stock Exchange after returning to London. Although Winton was a stockbroker, he became "an ardent socialist who grew close to Labour Party founders Aneurin Bevan, Jennie Lee, and Tom Driberg." Winton became part of a left-wing group opposed to appeasement and worried about the dangers posed by the Nazis by another socialist friend, Martin Blake.

He had excelled fence fencing both foil and epee at school, and he was selected for the British team in 1938. He had hoped to participate in the following Olympics, but the games were postponed due to World War II.

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