In 1938, just before World War II began, a young British man named Nicholas Winton visited Prague. He saw thousands of Jewish families in danger as Nazi Germany was about to invade.
Winton realized that many children would be killed if they stayed. So, he quietly began arranging trains to take them out of Czechoslovakia to safety in England. He worked day and night, raising money, arranging documents, and convincing families to let their children go.
By the time the war started, Nicholas Winton had saved 669 children, most of whom never saw their parents again but survived the Holocaust because of him.
For almost 50 years, he never told anyone about what he had done—not even his wife. In the 1980s, she found an old scrapbook with names and photos of the children he rescued. Only then did the world discover his heroism.
Nicholas Winton is now remembered as the “British Schindler,” a man who proved that one person’s courage and compassion can save hundreds of lives.