📍Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
1939 – 2015“I lived most of my adult life in Maidenhead in Berkshire, where I worked as a stockbroker and lived what appeared to be a quietly comfortable English life. What almost nobody knew — including my own family for decades — was that in the months before the Second World War, I had organised the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia, arranging their transport to Britain on eight trains that left Prague between March and August 1939. The ninth train, scheduled for the 3rd of September 1939, never left — war was declared that day and the children on it were almost all murdered. I kept a scrapbook of the children's photographs but told no one what I had done. My wife found the scrapbook in the attic in 1988 and the story finally became known. I was 79 years old. All those years in Maidenhead, going to work, coming home, and carrying this.”
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Sources: Winton, B. If It's Not Impossible: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton (2014), Troubador Publishing; Holocaust Memorial Day Trust archives; BBC documentary: "Whatever You Do" (1988)