IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 583 
Recognizing the remarkable example of Sir Nicholas Winton who organized 
the rescue of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakian children from Nazi death 
camps prior to the outbreak of World War II. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 27, 2007 
Mr. KLEIN of Florida (for himself, Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, 
Mr. LANTOS, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. ROTHMAN, Ms. WATSON, Ms. 
CARSON, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. MEEK of Flor-
ida, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. WEXLER, 
Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. MORAN of Kansas, Mr. INGLIS 
of South Carolina, Ms. KILPATRICK, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. PALLONE, 
Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. SCHIFF, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. CROWLEY, 
Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. INSLEE, Mr. PERLMUTTER, Mr. HODES, 
Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. ELLSWORTH, 
Ms. SUTTON, Mr. WILSON of Ohio, Mr. MAHONEY of Florida, Mr. 
WELCH of Vermont, Mr. WALZ of Minnesota, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. 
KAGEN, Mr. CARNEY, Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida, and Mr. 
NADLER) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the remarkable example of Sir Nicholas Winton 
who organized the rescue of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakian 
children from Nazi death camps prior to the outbreak 
of World War II. 
Whereas during the Holocaust, in which some 6,000,000 
Jews were brutally put to death by the Government of 
Nazi Germany, a small number of individuals risked their 
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lives and spent fortunes to save the lives of others be-
cause they were decent and courageous men and women 
of principle; 
Whereas, in October 1938, the Nazi Government occupied the 
Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia, which resulted in 
tens of thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the occupied 
areas and seeking safety in the areas of as-yet unoccu-
pied Czechoslovakia; 
Whereas, in late 1938, a 29-year-old British businessman, 
Nicholas Winton, was encouraged by a friend at the Brit-
ish Embassy in Prague to forgo a ski vacation in the 
Alps to visit Prague and see first-hand the freezing ref-
ugee camps filled with Jewish families who had fled the 
Sudetenland; 
Whereas, in the face of this enormous suffering, Winton, 
moved by feelings of deep compassion, undertook a mas-
sive effort to help the children of many of these Jewish 
families escape these horrible circumstances, though at 
that time neither he nor they knew the full extent of the 
horrors that awaited them; 
Whereas Winton sought to find friendly governments which 
would grant asylum to these Jewish refugee children, and 
his efforts were rebuffed by the countries whose help he 
requested, until the Governments of Sweden and the 
United Kingdom agreed to accept children from the 
Czechoslovakian refugee camps; 
Whereas Winton and other volunteers gathered names and 
other information on children whose parents recognized 
the importance of getting their children beyond the reach 
of the Nazi Government, and Winton was able to use this 
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information to identify foster homes for these refugee 
children; 
Whereas Winton took the lead in raising funds to pay for the 
transportation of the children from Prague to Britain 
and Sweden and to pay an enormous government-im-
posed fee to cover the costs of future repatriation; 
Whereas, on March 14, 1939, the first 20 children left 
Prague under Winton’s auspices, and the very next day 
the Nazi army overran the remainder of un-occupied 
Czechoslovakia; 
Whereas the heroic effort of Winton and other volunteers to 
assist these young children flee occupied Czechoslovakia 
continued for over six months until the outbreak of 
World War II on September 1, 1939, during which time 
669 children were able to leave in a total of eight sepa-
rate groups; 
Whereas the ninth group of some 250 children was scheduled 
to leave Prague on September 3, 1939, but was halted 
following the outbreak of hostilities, and none of these 
250 children lived to see the end of World War II six 
years later; 
Whereas this group of 669 children, saved through the efforts 
of Winton and his collaborators, includes doctors, nurses, 
teachers, musicians, artists, writers, pilots, ministers, sci-
entists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and a Member of the 
British Parliament, and today they and their children 
and grandchildren and great-grandchildren number over 
5,000 individuals, and these individuals live in the United 
States, Canada, Australia, the Czech Republic, Britain, 
Germany, and other countries; 
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