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When Nicholas Winton, the British rescuer of Jews, was rebuffed by the U.S.
The approximately 350,000 Jews of Czechoslovakia now braced to share the fate suffered by Jews in Germany and Austria. Winton realized the possibility of finding havens would be greater if they ...
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Sir Nicholas Winton may have saved even more Jewish children from Nazis
Sir Nicholas Winton is celebrated for rescuing 669 Jewish children from the Nazi regime, but he may have saved even more lives, new research suggests. The stockbroker organised Kindertransport ...
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The real story behind ‘One Life,’ the movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton, who rescued Jewish children from the Nazis
Winton’s role in that saga was hardly assured. Born to German-Jewish parents in London in 1909, Winton (originally “Wertheim”) was baptized into the Anglican Church, and as an adult ...
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WW2: How did one Englishman save 669 children from the Holocaust?
In 1938, Nicholas Winton was a young stockbroker in London. He was keenly aware of the events unfolding on the continent. Jews were under threat in Nazi-occupied Europe. Anti-Semitism was ...
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Joseph Winton 106th birthday at Jewish Care Freedman House
A man who kept one step ahead of the Nazis when War broke out has survived to tell the tale — at the age of 106.
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Holocaust Memorial Day - Teaching Resources
Steven tells them how in WW2 Nazi Germany tried to take over Europe and destroy the Jewish people. Sir Nicholas Winton (1909 - 2015) videoSir Nicholas Winton (1909 - 2015) Barbara Winton ...