Before World War II, Winton helped Jewish children escape and hide with British host families Sir Nicholas Winton, a British man who saved more than 600 children from the Holocaust, died on Wednesday ...

Nicholas Winton holds flowers while sitting on a stage after the premiere of the movie "Nicky's family" which is based on his life story in Prague January 20, 2011. REUTERS/Petr Josek LONDON (Reuters) ...

On the eve of World War II, several hundred children in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia—most of them Jewish—were destined to be taken to death camps. They owed their last-minute escape to the efforts of ...

LONDON (AP) — Nicholas Winton, a humanitarian who almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust, earning himself the label "Britain's Schindler," has died. He was 106.

In addition to helping hundreds of mostly Czech children escape the Nazi invasion in Prague, Winton worked to find them foster families. Nearly all of the children's biological parents were killed in ...

(Above, watch the "60 Minutes" profile of Nicholas Winton, which was broadcast in 2014.) LONDON --He was just a 29-year-old clerk at the London Stock Exchange when he faced the challenge of his ...

The world lost an uncommon hero this week, not just by the nature of his noble deeds, but by the hero’s humility regarding recognition of his acts. A person who ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of ...

LONDON – He was just a 29-year-old clerk at the London Stock Exchange when he faced the challenge of a lifetime. Traveling with a friend to Czechoslovakia in 1938, as the drums of impending war echoed ...

"When I look at him on screen, I swear I'm looking at my father," Nick Winton says of Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of the late British humanitarian Matej Divizna/Getty; Bleecker Street Anthony Hopkins ...

PRAGUE – The president of the Czech Republic has congratulated a Briton who organized mass evacuations of children to save them from Nazi concentration camps and announced he will award him the ...

LONDON — He was just a 29-year-old clerk at the London Stock Exchange when he faced the challenge of his lifetime. Traveling with a friend to Czechoslovakia in 1938, as the drums of impending war ...