Nagulat At Na-iyak Na Lamang Siya Sa Ginawa Ng Mga Tao Sa Paligid Niya - Panoorin Niyo Po At Kayo Rin Ay Ma-iiyak

Nagulat At Na-iyak Na Lamang Siya Sa Ginawa Ng Mga Tao Sa Paligid Niya - Panoorin Niyo Po At Kayo Rin Ay Ma-iiyak

Sir

Nicholas Winton

MBE

There is a man named Nicholas George Winton who is known as a hero of many. He was born 19 May 1909 and died peacefully on the 1st of July 2015, he was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. The world found out about his work over 50 years later, in 1988. The British press dubbed him the "British Schindler".

In 2003 Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to humanity, in saving Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia". On 28 October 2014, he was awarded the highest honor of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion (1st class), by Czech President Miloš Zeman.

An important obstacle was getting official permission to cross into the Netherlands, as the children were to embark on the ferry at Hook of Holland. After Kristallnacht the Dutch government officially closed its borders to any Jewish refugees. The Marechaussees, searched for them and returned any found to Germany, despite the horrors of Kristallnacht being well known.

Thanks to Britain Winton succeeded. After the first train, the process of crossing the Netherlands went smoothly. Winton ultimately found homes in Britain for 669 children. His mother worked with him to place the children in homes and later hostels. Throughout the summer of 1939, he placed photographs of the children in Picture Post seeking families to accept them.

Winton acknowledged the vital roles of Doreen Warriner (March 16, 1904 – December 17, 1972), Trevor Chadwick (April 22, 1907 – December 23, 1979), Nicholas Stopford, Beatrice Wellington (June 15, 1907 – ?), Josephine Pike, and Bill Barazetti (1914–2000) in Prague who also worked to evacuate children from Europe. Winton was in Prague for only about three weeks before the Nazis occupied the country. He never set foot in Prague Station. As he later wrote, "Chadwick did the more difficult and dangerous work after the Nazis invaded... he deserves all praise".

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