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In the British hospital, Wexham died an entrepreneur and philanthropist Nicholas Winton who during World War II saved six hundred sixty nine Jewish children from death ages two to sixteen.
Nicholas born in the family of German Jews in 1907 immigrated with his father and mother to the UK, where after school took up banking work. Upon learning in 1938 that the Nazi Germany occupied the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, Nicholas quit his job and went to Prague. The man immediately realized what a turn can take events, so he began to help immediately Jewish children whose lives were in danger. Winton then not was thirty years old.
Until the fall of 1939, the philanthropist used his means to send six trains from Czechoslovakia to the United Kingdom, in which six hundred sixty nine children left. Back in Britain, Nicholas helped find all these children foster families.
It is noteworthy that the British Schindler preferred his feat kept secret, and it would hardly have become widely known if forty-nine years later, Nicholas’s wife wouldn’t be found in his papers documents regarding the sending of trains with children. Female found twenty rescued children, and on her initiative the BBC television channel invited Winton to tell about his heroic deed.
Nicholas died of respiratory failure at the age of one hundred and six years. May the earth be in peace to him!
Great Britain
