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19 May 2015 106th Birthday of Nicolas Winton (born 1909), Kindertransport organizer who saved 669 children from the Holocaust #otdimjh

Posted on May 19, 2015 by richardsh

Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE (born Nicholas Wertheim, 19 May 1909) is a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669, mostly Jewish, children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War, in an operation later known … Continue reading →

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