Nicholas Winton

He was born into a jewish family with German origins, the 19th Mai
1909 in London. First born with the name Wertheim, his family
changed to Winton, because Wertheim was too German and Jewish
for the time. During his childhood, his parents converted, then he and
his family was baptized. They became Anglicans christians.
At 23, he became a stockbroker
Nicholas Winton went to Prague, invited by his friend Martin Blake,
who was stationed at the British Embassy in Prague and engaged in
rescuing Jews through the British Committee for Refugees from
Czechoslovakia. There he introduced him to Dooren Warnierr, who
then showed him the overcrowded refugee camps.
Following this, he decided to act and alone set up an organization
aimed at saving Jewish children from the Nazis.
The first convoy of children left Prague by air on March 14, 1939, the
day before the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Between March and
August, Winton and his colleagues organized another seven rail
convoys. The last left Prague on August 2, 1939, a month before the
start of the Second World War.
No one knew of his heroic act until 1980, when his wife Grete found a
notebook containing the information of 664 children he had helped.
In 1988, an episode of the BBC show That's Life introduced Winton to
some of those he had helped and to the British public at large.
Winton was knighted in 2002 for services to humanity.
He later declared that he had saved all these children because
something had to be done.
Winton died in 2015, aged 106.