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Nicholas Winton

Born May 19, 1909 · London

Died July 1, 2015 · aged 106

Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (born Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue Jewish children who were at risk of being murdered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Born to German-Jewish parents who had immigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton assisted in the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from C…