L.A. Times -
17 Jul 2013 23:58

Before World War II began in 1939, Nicholas Winton organized Kindertransports to England, rescuing 669 youngsters. His efforts are told in 'Nicky's Family.'After visiting Prague in late 1938, a young British stockbroker named Nicholas Winton had an "intuition" about the fate of Jews in Czechoslovakia now that the country had come under Nazi occupation. So he began his own Kindertransport organization to rescue at risk Jewish children and send them to safety in England.
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