Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (born Nicholas Wertheim; 19 May 1909

1 July 2015)
was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of th
em Jews, from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in
an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for t
he children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain.[1] After the war, Wi
nton did not discuss his efforts with anyone; his wife found out what he had don
e only after she discovered a scrapbook in their attic in 1988, detailing the ch
ildren's parents and the families that took them in. The British press dubbed hi
m the "British Schindler".[2] On 28 October 2014, he was awarded the highest hon
our of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion, by the Czech president,
Milo Zeman.