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Nicholas Winton helped 669 children out of Czechoslovakia in 1939 Nicholas Winton ( 1909 – 2015 ) was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue refugee children, mostly Jewish, whose families had fled persecution by Nazi Germany. [...]  Winton assisted in the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War. On a brief visit to Czechoslovakia, he helped compile a list of children in danger and, upon returning to Britain, he worked to fulfill the legal requirements of bringing the children to Britain and finding homes and sponsors for them. This operation was later known as the Czech Kindertransport . [...] His humanitarian accomplishments remained unknown and unnoticed by the world for nearly 50 years until 1988 when he was invited to the BBC television programme That's Life! , where he was reunited with dozens of the children he had helped come to Britain and was introduced to many of their children and grandchildren. [...] 👉 Wik...