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Winton is best known for organizing the rescue of 669 children, mostly Jewish, from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. He then found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain
The action earned him the nickname the "British Schindler" decades later when his deeds became public. It was never his style to talk about it -- even his wife didn't know about it until she inadvertently discovered a scrapbook tucked away in their attic in 1988 which he kept that detailed the children's parents and the families that took them in.
He passed away peacefully in his sleep at Wexham Hospital, Slough at the age of 106 on the anniversary of the departure of a train in 1939 carrying the largest number of children - 241.
In an age when someone is called a hero for playing a game or staring in a movie or TV program, Winton was the real deal.
The action earned him the nickname the "British Schindler" decades later when his deeds became public. It was never his style to talk about it -- even his wife didn't know about it until she inadvertently discovered a scrapbook tucked away in their attic in 1988 which he kept that detailed the children's parents and the families that took them in.
He passed away peacefully in his sleep at Wexham Hospital, Slough at the age of 106 on the anniversary of the departure of a train in 1939 carrying the largest number of children - 241.
In an age when someone is called a hero for playing a game or staring in a movie or TV program, Winton was the real deal.
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