Sir Nicholas Winton By: Jacob Goss

Sir Nicholas Winton He is 103 years old and is still alive. Sir Nicholas Winton saved 669 children from being sent to concentration camps. This project was named Operation Kindertransport.

Honored  In 1983 on the queens birthday he was appointed apart of the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).  Sir Nicholas Winton was knighted in 2002 for the work he had done.  In 2003, Winton received the Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement.  He was also nominated by the Czech government for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.  He also has many statues of his self all around the train station in Czechoslovakia

The idea In December 1938, Martin Blake, a friend and an instructional master at the Westminster School in London, asked Winton to forget his planned skiing vacation and to go with him to Czechoslovakia. Winton went and visited him in Czechoslovakia. This is where he heard about the children and wanted to help.

Process  Independently, Nicholas Winton set up his own rescue operation. At first, Winton's office was a dining room table at his hotel. Parents came to Winton and placed the future of their children into his hands. An office was set up on Vorsilska Street to accommodate the requests. Thousands of parents heard about this and hundreds of them lined up in front of the new office. Winton's office distributed questionnaires and registered the children to homes.  Winton contacted the governments of nations he thought could take in the children. Only Sweden and Great Britain said yes. Britain promised to accept children under the age of 18 as long as he found homes and supporters who could deposit £50 for each child to pay for their return home.

The train he missed Winton arranged for 9 trains to be loaded with the children. 8 trains were successfully loaded with the 669 children. The train he didn’t save, the 9 th one, had the most children on it. This is the one transport he remembered most. “The children were on the train waiting to leave to there new homes when Nazi’s came and stopped it.”

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“Don’t be content in your life just to do no wrong. Be prepared every day to do good.” -Sir Nicholas Winton “Save one life save the world” -Sir Nicholas Winton

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