page_title: Nicholas Winton
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Nicholas Winton / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Commemorative event to honor the memory of Sir Nicholas Winton on the first platform at the Prague Main Railway Station at the sculpture, which is dedicated to him. Sculpture author: Flor Kent; sculpture unveiling date: Sept.1st, 2009.Čeština: Pietní akce k uctění památky sira Nicholase Wintona na prvním nástupišti pražského Hlavního nádraží u sousoší, které je mu věnováno. Autorka sousoší: Flor Kent; datum odhalení sousoší: 1.září 2009.
context_page_description: Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE was a British banker and humanitarian who established an organisation to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had emigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton supervised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain.
  This operation was later known as the Czech Kindertransport.
  His work went 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 several of the children he had saved. The British press celebrated him and dubbed him the "British Schindler." In 2003, Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to humanity, in saving Jewish children from Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia". On 28 October 2014, he was awarded the highest honour of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion, by Czech President Miloš Zeman. He died in 2015 at the age of 106.
context_section_description: Winton died in his sleep on the morning of 1 July 2015 at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough from cardio-respiratory failure, having been admitted a week earlier following a deterioration in his health. He was 106 years old. Winton was survived by his son, Nicholas, and his daughter, Barbara.
  Winton's death came 76 years to the day after 241 of the children he saved left Prague on a train. A special report from the BBC News on several of the children whom Winton rescued during the war had been published earlier that day.
caption: Commemorative event, in July 2015, at the Prague Main Railway Station sculpture
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