The world lost an uncommon hero this week, not just by the nature of his noble deeds, but by the hero’s humility regarding recognition of his acts. A person who ...

LONDON — He was just a 29-year-old clerk at the London Stock Exchange when he faced the challenge of a lifetime. Traveling with a friend to Czechoslovakia in 1938, as the drums of impending war echoed ...

Sir Nicholas Winton, a man credited with organizing the daring rescue of 669 Jewish children who otherwise would have almost certainly met their deaths in the Nazi concentration camps, died this week ...

Before World War II, Winton helped Jewish children escape and hide with British host families Sir Nicholas Winton, a British man who saved more than 600 children from the Holocaust, died on Wednesday ...

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Post has issued a postage stamp in honor of Sir Nicholas Winton, a humanitarian who organized mass evacuations of children to save them from Nazi concentration camps. The ...

In addition to helping hundreds of mostly Czech children escape the Nazi invasion in Prague, Winton worked to find them foster families. Nearly all of the children's biological parents were killed in ...

An online petition calling on Britain’s Royal Mail to issue the stamp garnered nearly 106,000 signatures in less than a month. (JTA) — Britain’s Royal Mail said it will issue a commemorative stamp ...

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Humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton was no stranger to films about the life-saving work he carried out in the early days of World War II. From The Power of Good (2002) to Nicky’s Family (2011), a number ...

Sir Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, a righteous deed ...