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  2. Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (né 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.

  3. Mar 15, 2024 · Anthony Hopkins plays Sir Nicholas Winton, who helped evacuate 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe.

  4. Jan 12, 2024 · The film presents Winton as haunted by his failure to do more and frames his lifelong philanthropy as a way of not confronting the full horrors of the Holocaust.

    • Tony Kushner
  5. Jul 2, 2015 · Who Was Sir Nicholas Winton? Sir Nicholas Winton was a 29-year-old stockbroker who in 1939 organized trains out of Prague to secure the safe passage of 669 Jewish children from...

  6. Between December 1938 and September 1939, Winton worked with friends and colleagues in Prague and London to organise the transport and reception of children threatened by the Nazi racial laws which applied in Czechoslovakia after the German invasion of March 1939.

  7. Feb 6, 2024 · Over nine months in 1939, Sir Nicholas Winton organized train transport that rescued 669 Jewish children from the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

  8. Nicholas Winton organized a rescue operation that brought hundreds of children, mostly Jewish, from Czechoslovakia to safety in Great Britain before the outbreak of WWII.

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