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Undated family handout picture of Nicholas Winton with one of the children he rescued: Nicholas Winton who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during the Second World War was today receiving a letter of thanks from the Prime Minister. * Mr Winton saved 669 Czechoslovakian boys and girls destined for Nazi concentration camps by smuggling them into safe homes in Britain. 31/12/02 : Nicholas Winton with one of the children he rescued from Czechoslovakia before the Second World War, who has become a Knights Batchelor in the New Year's Honours List 1 February 1939
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Amazing lives Nicholas Winton: the British Schindler

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