1. Sir. Nicholas Winton

2. Nicholas Winton was born in 1909 in Hampstead, London. Two years before the war, his parents moved to the UK. They changed their surnames, Wertheim to Winton when they migrated. When Nicholas finished his studies in 1931 at the Stowe School, he started working at the London Stock Exchange.

3. He went to Prague to visit his friend Martin Blake and helped the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia. He decided to make an office in the hotel room where he was staying and began to develop a plan to take away from the country as many Jewish children as possible and to take them to other countries …saving their lives. Jewish families asked him to include their children in the list to try to save them, so he opened an office at Vorsilska Street. He contacted the ambassadors of the nations that could take the children, but only the Swedish Government agreed to deal with a group of children. Britain admitted those who were under 18 but only if before they found families who wanted to adopt those kids and paid £ 50 in advance for each child.

4. He never told anyone what he had done for 50 years, until his wife found the paperwork of the operation in the attic in 1988. He saved the lives of 669 children.

5. Queen Elizabeth II appointed him in 1993 Member of the British Empire. On December 31st, 2002, he was awarded a knighthood for his services to mankind. On October 9th, 2007 he was awarded the highest Czech military decoration, the Cross 1st Class.

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7. ARIEL SAAL 6 DISEÑO- 2015 TEACHER: Cynthia Mauas