{{Short description|British banker and humanitarian (1909–2015)}} {{Use British English|date=May 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Sir | honorific_suffix = MBE | image = Nicholas Winton in Prague.jpg | caption = Winton in Prague on 10 October 2007 | birth_name = Nicholas George Wertheim | birth_date = {{Birth date|df =yes|1909|05|19}} | birth_place = Hampstead, London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age| df =yes|2015|07|01|1909|05|19}} | death_place = Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, England | resting_place = Braywick Cemetery, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England | other_names = | education = Stowe School | occupation = Stockbroker and banker | spouse = {{Marriage|Grete Gjelstrup|1948|1999|reason=died}} | children = 3 | module = {{Infobox military person |embed=yes | nickname = | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = Royal Air Force | service_years = 1940–1954 | rank = Flight lieutenant | unit = | command = | battles = | awards = {{Plainlist}} * British Hero of the Holocaust * Order of the White Lion {{Endplainlist}} }} | website = {{URL|nicholaswinton.com}} }} '''Sir Nicholas George Winton''' ({{ne|'''Wertheim'''}}; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue refugee children, mostly Jewish, whose families had fled persecution by Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had immigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, 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, returning to Britain, he worked to fulfill the legal requirements of bringing the children to Britain and finding homes and sponsors for them.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Nicholas Winton, A Man of Courage|url=http://www.winton.dk|year=2008|publisher=Auschwitz|place=Denmark|access-date=3 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312195430/http://www.winton.dk/|archive-date=12 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> This operation was later known as the Czech {{lang|de|Kindertransport}} (German for 'children's transport').

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. The British press celebrated him and dubbed him the "British Schindler".<ref name="statue" /> In 2003, Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to humanity, in saving Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia".<ref name="Gazette"/> In 2014, he was awarded the highest honour of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion (1st class), by Czech President Miloš Zeman. Winton died in 2015, aged 106.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-07-01 |title=Holocaust 'hero' Sir Nicholas Winton dies aged 106 |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-33350880 |access-date=2022-07-31}}</ref>

== Early life == Winton was born on 19 May 1909 in Hampstead, London, to Jewish parents Rudolph Wertheim (1881{{ndash}}1937), a bank manager, and Barbara ({{née}} Wertheimer, 1888{{ndash}}1978),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-109930|title=Winton [formerly Wertheim], Sir Nicholas George (Nicky) (1909–2015), humanitarian, stockbroker, and finance director|website=www.oxforddnb.com|last=Sharples|first=Caroline|year=2019|language=en|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.109930|isbn=9780198614128|access-date=19 May 2020|url-access=subscription}}</ref> as the middle of three children. His elder sister was Charlotte (1908–2001) and his younger brother was Robert (1914–2009).<ref name="vorfrelser1948">{{cite book | title= Kirkebog |location= {{Interlanguage link|Vor Frelsers Sogn (Vejle Kommune) |de}} | series= 1946–1955 |chapter= Ægteviede |page= 67 |date= 31 October 1948 |trans-chapter= Married |trans-title= Parish Register |language= da | url = https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/da/billedviser?epid=17127752#171696,28830320 | format = photogram}} Véase el número. 78.</ref><ref>{{cite web| first=Stephen |last= Bates |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/01/sir-nicholas-winton |title=Sir Nicholas Winton obituary |work= The Guardian |location=London |date=1 July 2015 |access-date=1 July 2015 |df= dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=P71tAAAAMAAJ |title= Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation: Save One Life, Save the World |first1=Muriel |last1=Emanuel |first2=Vera |last2=Gissing |year=2002 |access-date= 1 July 2015 |isbn=9780853034254 |publisher=Vallentine Mitchell|pages=viii, 85, 110}}</ref> His parents were German Jews who had moved to London two years earlier.<ref name="winton train">{{cite web |title= Winton bio |url= http://wintontrain.eu/en/site/nicholas-winton/nw-zivotopis.htm |year= 2008 |work= Winton Train |publisher= České drahy |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090909102131/http://wintontrain.eu/en/site/nicholas-winton/nw-zivotopis.htm |archive-date= 9 September 2009}}</ref> The family name was Wertheim, but they changed it to Winton in an effort at integration.<ref name="fmd">{{cite web |url= http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=lpySrGekzZrDqT0hTVMp%2FA&scan=1 |title=Index entry |access-date= 30 April 2011|work= FreeBMD|publisher= ONS}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34567/page/6930/data.pdf|title=Notices|date=4 November 1938|website=London Gazette}}</ref> They also converted to Christianity, and Winton was baptised.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8227798.stm |title= Profile: Nicholas Winton | work=BBC News |publisher= BBC |date=28 August 2009 |df= dmy-all}}</ref> His mother was the sister of the psychiatrists Fredric Wertham and Ida Macalpine.<ref name="k904">{{cite book | last=Winton | first=Barbara | title=One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague Kindertransport | publisher=Simon and Schuster | date=5 November 2024 | isbn=978-1-63936-739-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kcryEAAAQBAJ&q=%2522nicholas%2520winton%2522%2520%2522ida%2522&pg=PT71 | access-date=4 November 2025 | page=}}</ref>

In 1923, Winton entered Stowe School, which had just opened.<ref>{{cite web|title=The official opening of Stanhope House|url= http://www.stowe.co.uk/news-and-events/news-archive/139/the-official-opening-of-stanhope-house |date=6 March 2009 |publisher= Stowe School|access-date= 3 September 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110718080133/http://www.stowe.co.uk/news-and-events/news-archive/139/the-official-opening-of-stanhope-house |archive-date= 18 July 2011}}</ref> He left without qualifications, attending night school while volunteering at the Midland Bank. He then went to Hamburg, where he worked at Behrens Bank, followed by Wasserman Bank in Berlin.<ref name= "winton train" /> In 1931, he moved to France and worked for the Banque Nationale de Crédit in Paris. He also earned a banking qualification in France. Returning to London, he became a broker at the London Stock Exchange. Though a stockbroker, Winton was also "an ardent socialist who became close to Labour Party luminaries Aneurin Bevan, Jennie Lee and Tom Driberg".<ref name="moss">{{cite news |last = Moss |first = Stephen|title='British Schindler' Nicholas Winton: I wasn't heroic. I was never in danger |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/09/british-schindler-nicholas-winton-interview |access-date= 30 December 2014|work= The Guardian|date= 9 November 2014}}</ref> Through another socialist friend, Martin Blake, Winton became part of a left-wing circle opposed to appeasement and concerned about the dangers posed by the Nazis.<ref name=moss />

At school, he had become a successful fencer, fencing both foil and épée, and was selected for the British team in 1938.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nicholaswinton.com/exhibition/early-life | title=Early Life – Sir Nicholas Winton Exhibition }}</ref> He had hoped to compete in the 1940 Olympics, but the games were cancelled because of the Second World War.<ref name=T />

== Rescue work == [[File:Nicholas Winton (1909-2015) in 1938 by the Associated Press.jpg|thumb|left|Nicholas Winton in 1938 with Hansi]] {{See also|Kindertransport|l1={{lang|de|Kindertransport|cat=no}}}} [[File:Czech Jewish children evacuated via airplane (1939).webm|thumb|upright=1.3|Jewish children leave Prague for Croydon Airport, Britain, on a DC-2. Winton appears towards the end of the video, wearing glasses.]] Shortly before Christmas 1938, Winton was planning to travel to Switzerland for a skiing holiday. Following a call for help from Marie Schmolka and Doreen Warriner,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Hájková |first=Anna |title=The Woman Behind the Kindertransport |url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/woman-behind-kindertransport |journal=History Today |volume=68 |pages=36–47}}</ref> he decided instead to visit Prague and help Martin Blake,<ref name="winton train" /> who was in Prague as an associate of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia,<ref name="ushmm">{{cite web |title=Nicholas Winton and the Rescue of Children from Czechoslovakia, 1938–1939 |url=https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007780 |website=Holocaust Encyclopedia |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum }}</ref> then in the process of being occupied by Germany, and had called Winton to ask him to assist in Jewish welfare work.<ref name="Romain">{{cite news |author-link=Jonathan Romain |author= Romain, Jonathan|access-date = 4 January 2024|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/17/salute-british-schindler-104-nicholas-winton |title=A salute to the 'British Schindler' as he turns 104 |work=The Guardian |date=17 May 2013 }}</ref> Alongside the Czechoslovak Refugee Committee, the British and Canadian volunteers such as Winton, Trevor Chadwick, and Beatrice Wellington worked in organising to aid children from families at risk from the Nazis.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Holmes |last2=Brade |first1=Rose |first2=Laura |date=2017 |title=Troublesome Sainthood: Nicholas Winton and the Contested History of Child Rescue in Prague, 1938–1940 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/652488 |journal=History and Memory |volume=29 |pages=3–40 |doi=10.2979/histmemo.29.1.0003 |s2cid=159631013 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Many of them set up their office at a dining room table in a hotel in Wenceslas Square.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nicholas Winton, the Schindler of Britain |url=http://www.auschwitz.dk/Winton.htm |year=2008 |publisher=auschwitz.dk |access-date=3 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140207015207/http://www.auschwitz.dk/Winton.htm |archive-date=7 February 2014 }}</ref> Americans Waitstill and Martha Sharp and British Quaker Tessa Rowntree were important members of the team that evacuated children and other refugees from Czechoslovakia.<ref name="Dowling">{{cite journal |last1=Dowling |first1=Marie |title=Friends, Nazis and Communists: The Double Persecution of Antonie Kleinerova |journal=Quaker Studies |date=2003 |volume=8 |issue=2 |page=228 |url=http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol8/iss2/8 |access-date=20 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-risked-their-lives-to-rescue-hundreds-from-the-nazis-but-no-one-knew-their-story--until-now/2016/09/19/1d9a0d84-79b9-11e6-beac-57a4a412e93a_story.html |title=They risked their lives to rescue scores of people from the Nazis. Few knew their story until now. |date=2016-09-19 |author1=Nick Anderson |newspaper=The Washington Post |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409}}</ref>

Altogether, Winton spent three weeks in Prague and left in January 1939, two months before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. Other foreign volunteers remained, such as Chadwick, Warriner, Wellington, the Sharps, and Rowntree.<ref name=":0" /> In November 1938, following {{lang|de|Kristallnacht}} in Nazi-ruled Germany, the House of Commons approved a measure to allow the entry into Britain of refugees younger than 17, provided they had a place to stay and a warranty of {{Inflation|UK|50|1938|fmt=eq|orig=yes|cursign=£}}{{Inflation/fn|UK}} was deposited per person for their eventual return to their own country.<ref>{{cite web |author=Baruch Tenenbaum |title=Nicholas Winton, British savior |url=http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/saviors/others/nicholas-winton-british-savior.5011016.htm |publisher=The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation |access-date=3 September 2009}}</ref>

=== Netherlands === An important obstacle was getting official permission to cross into the Netherlands, as the children were to embark on the ferry at The Hook of Holland. Following {{lang|de|Kristallnacht}} in November 1938, the Dutch government officially closed its borders to any Jewish refugees. The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee searched for them and returned any found to Germany, despite the horrors of {{lang|de|Kristallnacht}} being well known.<ref>{{Citation |first=Dr. L |last=de Jong |title=Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog |trans-title=A Chronicle of the Netherlands in the World War |language=nl |chapter=part 1 }}</ref>

Winton succeeded, thanks to the guarantees he had obtained from Britain. Following the first train-full of refugees to the Netherlands, escorted by Quaker Tessa Rowntree, the process of crossing went smoothly.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Flashbak |url=http://flashbak.com/sir-nicholas-winton-how-one-man-saved-so-many-lives-9225/ |title=Sir Nicholas Winton: How One Man Saved So Many Lives |date=23 November 2013 |access-date=1 July 2015 }}</ref> Winton ultimately found homes in Britain for 669 children,<ref>{{Citation |title=The Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39: New Perspectives |page=52 |year=2012 |editor1-first=Andrea |editor1-last=Hammel |editor2-first=Bea |editor2-last=Lewkowicz}}</ref> many of whose parents perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp.<ref name="Haaretz.com">{{cite web |last=Lahav |first=Yehuda |author2=Nir Hasson |title=Jews saved by U.K. stockbroker to reenact 1939 journey to safety |url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1111852.html |date=2 September 2009 |work=Haaretz |access-date=3 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091007001518/http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1111852.html |archive-date=7 October 2009 }}</ref> His mother worked with him to place the children in homes and later hostels.<ref>{{Citation |title = Nicholas Winton and the rescued generation | first1 = Muriel | last1 = Emanuel |first2=Věra |last2=Gissing | year = 2002 | quote = Many German refugee boys and some Winton children were given refuge in Christadelphian homes and hostels, and substantial documentation exists to show how closely Overton worked with Winton and, later, with Winton's mother | page=114}}</ref> Throughout the summer of 1939, he placed photographs of the children in ''Picture Post'' seeking families to accept them.<ref name="E">{{citation |newspaper=The Economist |page=82 |title=A job well done | date=11 July 2015 |url=https://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21657356-sir-nicholas-winton-rescuer-children-died-july-1st-aged-106-job-well-done}}</ref> By coincidence, the names of the London and North Eastern Railway steamers which operated the Harwich to The Hook of Holland route included the {{SS|Prague|1929|2}} and the {{SS|Vienna|1929|2}}; the former can be seen in a 1938 Pathé Newsreel.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKbI_jhIHAg The Kinder – Refugiados judíos Diciembre de 1938]. YouTube. 19 de diciembre de 2018. Consultado el 19 de mayo de 2020.</ref>

He also wrote to U.S. politicians such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, asking them to take more children.<ref name=E/> He said that two thousand more might have been saved if they had helped, but only Sweden took any besides those sent to Britain.<ref name="T">{{citation |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11711344/Sir-Nicholas-Winton-humanitarian-obituary.html | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |title=Sir Nicholas Winton, humanitarian – obituary | date=1 July 2015 |access-date=19 May 2020 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=E/> The last group of children, scheduled to leave Prague on 1 September 1939, was unable to depart. With Hitler's invasion of Poland on the same day, the Second World War had begun.<ref name="Romain" /><ref name = "Haaretz.com" /> Of the 250 children due to leave on that train, only two survived the war.<ref name="jpost" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://arafp.homestead.com/wherearetheynow.html|title=Wherearetheynow|date=April 2002|website=Albert Road Academy|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/50623/gissing.pdf;jsessionid=682ADBDE391D60277FF11F0AAB3F6E80?sequence=4 |title=Vera Gissing Interview |access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref>

Winton acknowledged the vital roles in Prague of Doreen Warriner, Trevor Chadwick,<ref name = "chadwick"/> Nicholas Stopford, Beatrice Wellington,<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rescue of the Prague Refugees 1938–39 |first=William |last=Chadwick |year= 2010 |publisher= Matador |pages=114–134 | isbn=978-1-84876-504-7}}</ref> Josephine Pike and Bill Barazetti (1914–2000),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thepoormouth.blogspot.ca/2008/01/bill-barazetti-local-hero.html|title=Bill Barazetti - Local Hero|date=6 January 2008}}</ref> who were the people who organized the evacuation of refugees, including the children, from Czechoslovakia. Winton stayed in Prague only about three weeks and left before the Nazis occupied the country.<ref name="AJR">{{cite journal | url=http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2011_april.pdf | title=Doreen Warriner, Trevor Chadwick and the 'Winton children' | author=Grenville, Anthony | journal=Association of Jewish Refugees Journal | date=April 2011 | volume=11 | issue=4 | pages=1–2 | access-date=4 February 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422060734/http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2011_april.pdf | archive-date=22 April 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He never set foot in the Prague main railway station, although a statue of him is erected there. He later wrote that Chadwick "then went to work and dealt with all the considerable problems at the Prague end and this work he continued to carry on even when it became difficult and dangerous when the Germans arrived. He deserves all praise".<ref name="chadwick">{{cite book |title=The Rescue of the Prague Refugees 1938–39 |first=William |last=Chadwick |year= 2010 |publisher= Matador | page = 97| isbn=978-1-84876-504-7}}</ref>

=== Notable people saved === * Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs (born 1932), British Labour Party politician and former Member of Parliament<ref name="britishschindler" /> * Heini Halberstam (1926–2014), mathematician<ref>{{citation| title=Champaign Resident Remembers the Kindertransport |publisher=WILL-TV |date=19 April 2012 |url=http://vimeo.com/40637650 }}</ref> * Renata Laxova (1931–2020), paediatric geneticist<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://madison.com/news/local/columnists/doug-moe/doug-moe-escaping-the-nazis-with-a-heros-help/article_e92b097d-2a1b-578a-884d-1be847870605.html |title=Escaping the Nazis, with a hero's help |first=Doug |last=Moe |website=Wisconsin State Journal |date=2 June 2014 |language=en|access-date=21 April 2020}}</ref> * Gerda Mayer (1927–2021), poet<ref>Emanuel, Muriel; Gissing, Věra (2002), ''Nicholas Winton y la generación rescatada'', p. 102.</ref> * Karel Reisz (1926–2002), filmmaker<ref>Emanuel, Muriel; Gissing, Věra (2002), ''Nicholas Winton y la generación rescatada'', p. 110.</ref> * Joe Schlesinger (1928–2019), Canadian television journalist and author<ref>Emanuel, Muriel; Gissing, Věra (2002), ''Nicholas Winton y la generación rescatada'', p. 138</ref> * Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss (1926–2022), Chief Rabbi of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-hardline-ultra-orthodox-group-eda-haredit-contracts-coronavirus/ |title=Head of hardline Eda Haredit, initially resistant on virus rules, is infected |last1=Sokol |first1=Sam |work=Times of Israel |access-date=21 April 2020 }}</ref> *Vera Gissing (1928–2022), writer and translator<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://english.radio.cz/vera-gissing-one-wintons-children-has-died-aged-93-8744975 |title=Vera Gissing, one of Winton's children, has died aged 93 |date=16 March 2022 |work=Radio.cz }}</ref>

Of the 669 children saved from the Holocaust through Winton's efforts, more than 370 have never been traced. BBC News suggested in 2015 that they may not know the full story of how they survived the war.<ref name="britishschindler" /><ref name="BBC150701">{{cite news |date=1 July 2015 |title='British Schindler' Sir Nicholas Winton dies aged 106 |work=BBC News Online |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33350880 |access-date=1 July 2015}}</ref>

== Second World War == Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Winton initially declined to be conscripted into the British Army, applying successfully for registration as a conscientious objector. He served with an Air Raid Precautions section and a British Red Cross ambulance unit.<ref>{{Cite British Newspaper Archive|id=bl/0004648/19400222/066/0005|title=Hampstead News|preview=|page=5|date=22 February 1940}}</ref><ref>Archivo de Sonido del Museo Imperial de Guerra, 17460</ref>

In 1940, he rescinded his objections and joined the Royal Air Force, Administrative and Special Duties Branch. Initially he was an aircraftman, rising to sergeant and on 22 June 1944 he was commissioned as an acting pilot officer on probation.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36633 |supp=y|page=3562|date=28 July 1944}}</ref> On 17 August 1944, he was promoted to pilot officer on probation.<ref name="LG 29 August 1944">{{London Gazette |issue=36681 |date=29 August 1944 |page=4071 |supp=y }}</ref>

He was promoted to the war substantive rank of flying officer on 17 February 1945,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36963 |supp=y|page=1202|date=27 February 1945}}</ref> staying in the Air Force after the war. He relinquished his commission on 19 May 1954, retaining the honorary rank of flight lieutenant.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40315 |supp=y|pages=6205|date=27 February 1945}}</ref>

==Postwar== [[File:Winton students 4657.JPG|thumb|Winton visiting Prague in October 2007.]]

===Family life=== Following the war, Winton worked for the International Refugee Organization and then the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Paris, where he met Grete Gjelstrup, a Danish secretary and accountant's daughter.<ref name=vorfrelser1948/><ref name=moss /> They married in her hometown of Vejle Denmark, on 31 October 1948.<ref name=vorfrelser1948/>

They had three children: two sons, named Nicholas Jr. and Robin, and a daughter named Barbara. Their younger son Robin had Down's syndrome. The family insisted that Robin would stay with them rather than go to a residential home as was the norm at the time. Robin's death from meningitis on the day before his sixth birthday affected Winton greatly and he founded a local support organisation which became Maidenhead Mencap. Winton stood, unsuccessfully, for the town council in 1954; he later found work in the finance departments of various companies.<ref name= moss />

===Recognition=== Winton mentioned his humanitarian accomplishments in his election material while unsuccessfully standing for election to Maidenhead Town Council in 1954.<ref name="moss"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Nicholas George Winton Election Material 1954|url=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Os4WO-YmA_Y/VZUH2RUoGMI/AAAAAAAAlqA/386yknKm3xE/s1600/Winton3.png|access-date=28 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Interview to Barbara Winton, daughter of Sir Nicholas Winton. London, 27 June 2013.|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQa9T6IpAgo |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/IQa9T6IpAgo |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|website=YouTube| date=19 July 2013 |publisher=The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation|access-date=29 July 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Otherwise, he went unnoticed for half a century<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://europe.newsweek.com/wintons-children-saved-holocaust-britains-schindler-329771?rm=eu |title=Winton's Children: Saved From The Holocaust By 'Britain's Schindler' |author=John Miles |magazine=Newsweek |date=7 March 2015 |access-date=22 February 2017}}</ref> until in 1988 his wife found a detailed scrapbook in their attic,<ref name="JewishAZ">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/020201/power.shtml |title=Film documents 'power of good' |work=Jewish News of Greater Phoenix |publisher=Jewishaz.com |access-date=1 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919183120/http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/020201/power.shtml |archive-date=19 September 2008 }}</ref> containing lists of the children, including their parents' names and the names and addresses of the families that took them in. He gave the scrapbook to Elisabeth Maxwell, a Holocaust researcher and wife of media magnate Robert Maxwell.<ref name="moss"/><ref name="JewishAZ" /> Letters were sent to each of these known addresses and 80 of "Winton's children" were found in Britain.<ref name="JewishAZ"/> In a 2017 interview on the BBC Radio 4 programme ''The Life Scientific'', Simon Wessely described how his father Rudi, one of the rescued children, had a chance encounter with Winton.<ref name="TLS">{{cite web |title=''The Life Scientific'' Simon Wessely on unexplained medical syndromes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08dnr3g |website=BBC |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 January 2026}}</ref>

The wider world found out about his work in February 1988<ref name="moss"/> during an episode of the BBC television programme ''That's Life!''<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.powerofgood.net/story.php|title = The Power of Good|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131023071506/http://www.powerofgood.net/story.php|url-status = live <!--https://www.webcitation.org/6LGCysuUM-->|archive-date = 23 October 2013}}</ref> when he was invited as a member of the audience. At one point, Winton's scrapbook was shown and his achievements were explained. The host of the programme, Esther Rantzen, introduced Winton to children he had helped to rescue, including Vera Gissen.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1988-03-06 |title=Crying for the past |pages=19 |work=Sunday Mirror |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-mirror-crying-for-the-past/132314565/ |access-date=2023-09-24}}</ref>

In a later, follow-up ''That's Life!'' programme at which Winton was also in the audience, Rantzen asked whether anybody in the audience was among the children who owed their lives to Winton, and if so, to stand: more than two dozen people surrounding Winton rose and applauded.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqqbM1B-mPY "Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton (That's Life - 1988)"], via Youtube.</ref> Rantzen then asked if anyone present was the child or grandchild of one of the children Winton saved, and the rest of the audience stood.<ref>''That's Life!'', 1988{{full citation needed|date=February 2025}}</ref>

Winton was the subject of ''This Is Your Life'' in 2003 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nicholas Winton (2003) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8aec35b8 |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=BFI |language=en}}{{dead link|date=October 2023|bot=medic}} {{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> at Winton House, an Abbeyfield Society care home in Windsor, Berkshire, named in his honour.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2001-11-14 |title=Britain's bloody-minded Schindler |pages=28 |work=Evening Standard |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-britains-bloody-minded/132312202/ |access-date=2023-09-24}}</ref>

By the time Winton's work became known in 1988, most of the people who worked for the kindertransport in Czechoslovakia had died unrecognised. Despite widespread praise for his work, two scholars have attempted to highlight that his accomplishments were a group effort, writing about the situation "...&nbsp;We should not reduce the account to just one saint."<ref name="Brade and Holmes">{{cite journal |last1=Brade |first1=Laura E. |last2=Holmes |first2=Rose |title=Troublesome Sainthood: Nicholas Winton and the Contested History of Child Rescue in Prague, 1938–1940 |journal=History and Memory |date=2017 |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=23–29 |doi=10.2979/histmemo.29.1.0003 |jstor=10.2979/histmemo.29.1.0003 |s2cid=159631013 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/histmemo.29.1.0003|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Winton and his brother Robert started an inter-regional fencing competition in 1950. The Winton Cup continued and celebrated its belated 70th anniversary in 2022 due to postponements during the COVID-19 pandemic. His children and grandchildren make regular guest appearances each year.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://westmidlandsfencing.org.uk/senior-winton-selection | title=Senior Winton Cup }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Winton Cup and Our Teams |url=https://bfaeastern.org/winton-cup/ |website=BFA Eastern |access-date=25 July 2023}}</ref>

The Israeli Airforce Special Rescue Unit 669 is named as a tribute to the 669 lives saved by Winton.<ref>https://www.afu669.org/israeli-air-force-unit-669-visits-nyc</ref>

===100th birthday=== To celebrate his 100th birthday, Winton flew over the White Waltham Airfield in a microlight piloted by Judy Leden, the daughter of one of the boys he saved.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/8125546.stm|title='UK Schindler' in birthday flight|work=BBC News|date=29 June 2009|access-date=1 September 2009}}</ref> His birthday was also marked by the publication of a profile in ''The Jewish Chronicle''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/features/sir-nicholas-winton-a-reluctant-holocaust-hero-1.9263|title=Sir Nicholas Winton: A reluctant Holocaust hero|first=Monica|last=Porter|date=14 May 2009|work=The Jewish Chronicle|access-date=20 December 2009}}</ref>

In 2014, a book entitled ''If it's Not Impossible... The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton'', written by his daughter Barbara Winton, was published.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/19/if-its-not-possible-life-sir-nicholas-winton-barbara-winton-review|title=Review: If It's Not Impossible … The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton – review|newspaper=The Guardian|first=Emma|last=Howard|date=19 June 2014}}</ref>

== Death == thumb|Commemorative event, in July 2015, at the Prague Main Railway Station sculpture Winton died in his sleep from cardiac arrest on the morning of 1 July 2015 at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, having been admitted a week earlier following a deterioration in his health. He was 106 years old.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kindertransport-organizer-nicholas-winton-dies-106-32152995|title=Kindertransport Organizer Nicholas Winton Dies at 106|first=Naomi|last=Koppel|date=1 July 2015|access-date=1 July 2015|publisher=ABC News}}</ref><ref name="NYObit">{{cite web |url=http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/world/europe/nicholas-winton-is-dead-at-106-saved-children-from-the-holocaust.html | title=Nicholas Winton, Rescuer of 669 Children From Holocaust, Dies at 106 |work=The New York Times |author=Robert D. McFadden |date=1 July 2015 |access-date=19 May 2020 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Winton was cremated and his ashes were buried at Braywick Cemetery in Maidenhead, Berkshire, alongside his wife Grete and son Robin.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nicholaswinton.com/memorials | title=Memorials to Sir Nicholas Winton }}</ref>

Winton's death came 76 years to the day after 241 of the children he saved left Prague on a train.<ref name="advertiser">{{cite news |date=1 July 2015 |title=Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from Nazi persecution, dies aged 106 |work=Maidenhead Advertiser |url=http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/News/Areas/Maidenhead/Sir-Nicholas-Winton-dies-aged-106-01072015.htm |access-date=1 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702022634/http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/News/Areas/Maidenhead/Sir-Nicholas-Winton-dies-aged-106-01072015.htm |archive-date=2 July 2015}}</ref> A special report from the BBC News on several of the children whom Winton rescued during the war had been published earlier that day.<ref name="britishschindler">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-30895961|work=BBC News|title=Nicholas Winton's children: The Czech Jews rescued by 'British Schindler'|date=1 July 2015|access-date=1 July 2015}}</ref>

== Honours == In the 1983 Birthday Honours, Winton was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for "services to the community in Maidenhead, Berkshire".<ref name=":1">{{London Gazette|issue=49375 |supp=y|page=17|date=10 June 1983}}</ref> In the 2003 New Year Honours, he was knighted for "services to humanity, in saving Jewish Children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, 1938–39".<ref name="Gazette">{{London Gazette|issue=56797 |supp=y|page=2|date=31 December 2002}}</ref><ref name="Haaretz.com" /><ref name=":2">{{London Gazette|issue=57030|page=10218|date=15 August 2003}}</ref> He met the Queen again during her state visit to Bratislava, Slovakia, in October 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=Slovaks welcome Queen to capital|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7686060.stm|date=23 October 2008|work=BBC News|access-date=3 September 2009}}</ref> In 2003, Winton received the Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement.<ref>{{cite web |date=2003 |title=Lifetime Achievement: Sir Nicholas Winton |url=http://prideofbritain.com/history/2003/sir-nicholas-winton |access-date=9 November 2016 |website=Pride of Britain}}</ref> In 2010, Winton was named a British Hero of the Holocaust by the British Government.<ref name="Telegraph9Mar2010">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/7402443/Britons-honoured-for-holocaust-heroism.html |title=Britons honoured for holocaust heroism |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=9 March 2010 |access-date=9 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312103651/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/7402443/Britons-honoured-for-holocaust-heroism.html |archive-date=12 March 2010 |location=London |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Winton was awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Fourth Class, by the Czech President Václav Havel in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of holders of the Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Order|url=http://www.hrad.cz/en/czech-republic/state-decorations/tomas-garrigue-masaryk-order/list.shtml|work=Prague Castle site|publisher=Office of the President of the Czech Republic|access-date=3 September 2009}}</ref> In 2008, he was honoured by the Czech government in several ways. An elementary school in Kunžak is named after him,<ref name="army.cz">{{cite web |url=http://www.army.cz/scripts/detail.php?id=11598|title=Sir Nicholas Winton in the Czech Republic|date=2 July 2008|publisher=Ministry of Defense, Czech Republic |access-date=5 September 2009}}</ref> and he was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defence, Grade I.<ref name=army.cz /> The Czech government nominated him for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.<ref name=army.cz /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7222653.stm|title=UK &#124; UK's 'Schindler' awaits Nobel vote|work=BBC News|date=1 February 2008|access-date=1 September 2009}}</ref>

The minor planet 19384 Winton was named in his honour by Czech astronomers Jana Tichá and Miloš Tichý.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=19384+Winton |title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser|access-date=11 January 2009|work=JPL Small-Body Database |publisher=Jet Propulsion Laboratory|date=2 October 2003}}</ref>

[[File:Wintons Prague memorial by Flor Kent - 1.jpg|thumb|Statue at Prague main railway station, by Flor Kent, unveiled on 1{{nbsp}}September 2009]]

A statue of Winton stands on Platform 1 of the Praha hlavní nádraží railway station.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMAJ8K_Sir_Nicholas_Winton_statue_Praha_CZ|title = Sir Nicholas Winton statue, Praha, CZ|date = 20 January 2011|website = Waymarking|access-date = 19 November 2013|publisher = Groundspeak|author= Dáin & Olík|quote = Quick Description: Bronzova socha Sira Nicholase Wintona a dvou deti / Bronze statues of Sir Nicholas Winton and two children.}}</ref> Created by Flor Kent, it was unveiled on 1 September 2009 as part of a larger commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the last ''Kindertransport'' train (see also ''Winton train'', below).<ref name="Prague_statue">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/survivors-gather-to-pay-tribute-to-british-schindler-1780272.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220619/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/survivors-gather-to-pay-tribute-to-british-schindler-1780272.html |archive-date=19 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Survivors gather to pay tribute to 'British Schindler'|newspaper=The Independent |date=1 September 2009|access-date=9 November 2016}}</ref>

There are also three memorials at Liverpool Street station in London, where the ''Kindertransport'' children arrived.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.6millionmemorials.co.uk/uk-holocaust-memorials/kindertransport-memorial---liverpool-st-london|title=Kindertransport – the arrival Memorial|date=n.d.|access-date=13 March 2015}}</ref> In September 2010, another statue of Winton was unveiled, this time at Maidenhead railway station by Home Secretary Theresa May, MP for Maidenhead. Created by Lydia Karpinska, it depicts [https://maidenheadinpictures.com/2018/03/07/sir-nicholas-winton-statue-maidenhead-station/ Winton sitting on a bench and reading a book].<ref name="statue">{{cite news|title=Statue for 'British Schindler' Sir Nicholas Winton|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-11356875|work=BBC News|access-date=18 September 2010|date=18 September 2010}}</ref>

Winton was a humanist and an active member of Humanists UK who described religion as a "facade", advocating for human ethics based on "goodness, kindness, love, honesty."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://heritage.humanists.uk/nicholas-winton/|work=Humanist Heritage|publisher=Humanists UK|accessdate=28 January 2025 |title=Humanist Heritage: Nicholas Winton (1909–2015) }}</ref> In a 2015 interview, Winton told Stephen Sackur he had become disillusioned with religion during the war as he could not reconcile religious movements "praying for victory on both sides of the same war". Winton went on to describe his personal beliefs: "I believe in ethics, and if everybody believed in ethics we'd have no problems at all. That's the only way out; forget the religious side."<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO63ajFFhDo |title=BBC HARDtalk with Sir Nicholas Winton |publisher=BBC |via=YouTube |access-date=2 January 2025 |minutes=18:11}}</ref>

Winton received the Wallenberg Medal on 27 June 2013 in London.<ref name="jpost">{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Sir-Nicholas-Winton-A-remarkable-living-legend-403411|title=Sir Nicholas Winton – A remarkable living legend|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=18 May 2015|access-date=1 July 2015}}</ref> The following year, the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation established a literary competition named after Winton. The contest is for essays by high school students about Winton's legacy.<ref name="letter">Carta en el periódico The Guardian, 24 de mayo de 2014, firmada por Eduardo Eurnekian y Baruch Tenembaum, presidente y fundador de la Fundación Internacional Raoul Wallenberg</ref>

Winton was awarded the Freedom of the City of London on 23 February 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nicholaswinton.com/ |title=Sir Nicholas Winton Home Page |publisher=Nicholaswinton.com |access-date=1 July 2015}}</ref>

In 2019, his old school, Stowe, opened a new boys' day house, named Winton.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stowe.co.uk/school/admissions/day-offer/winton-house-boys#What's%20in%20a%20name?|title=Winton House Boys|language=en|access-date=19 May 2020|archive-date=4 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804125350/https://www.stowe.co.uk/school/admissions/day-offer/winton-house-boys#What's%20in%20a%20name?|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Winton Train === {{Main|Winton Train}}

[[File:Winton-Train-Headboard-London-Liverpool-St-Stn-20090904.jpg|thumb|right|The headboard worn by No. 60163 ''Tornado'' from Harwich to Liverpool Street station, the final leg of the Winton Train from Prague]]

On 1 September 2009, a special "Winton Train" composed of one or two steam locomotives (out of a set of six) and carriages used in the 1930s set off from the Prague Main railway station for London via the original Kindertransport route. On board were several surviving "Winton children" and their descendants, who were welcomed by Winton in London.<ref name="C4News4Sep09">{{cite news |url=http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/winton+train+arrives+in+london/3331402 |title=Winton train arrives in London |date=4 September 2009 |publisher=Channel 4 News |access-date=5 September 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240524113542/https://www.webcitation.org/5jZ6fQ4U5?url=http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/winton%20train%20arrives%20in%20london/3331402 |archive-date=24 May 2024 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The occasion marked the 70th anniversary of the final intended Kindertransport arranged by Winton, due to set off on 1 September 1939 but prevented by the outbreak of the Second World War that very day.<ref name="60Minutes">{{cite AV media |people=Simon, Bob (Correspondent) |date=27 April 2014 |series= 60 Minutes |title=Saving the Children |medium=Television Production Transcript |language=en |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-the-children-on-eve-of-world-war-11-60-minutes/ |access-date=19 May 2016 |publisher= CBS News}}</ref> At the train's departure, a memorial statue for Winton, designed by Flor Kent, was unveiled at the railway station.<ref>{{cite web|last=ČTK |title=Train in honour of Jewish children rescuer Winton leaves Prague |url=http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/train-in-honour-of-jewish-children-rescuer-winton-leaves-prague/395346 |date=1 September 2009 |work=České noviny |publisher=Neris s.r.o. |access-date=1 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904103942/http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/train-in-honour-of-jewish-children-rescuer-winton-leaves-prague/395346 |archive-date=4 September 2009 }}</ref>

=== Order of the White Lion === On 19 May 2014, Winton's 105th birthday, it was announced he was to receive the Czech Republic's highest honour, for giving Czech children "the greatest possible gift: the chance to live and to be free".<ref name="Telegraph.co.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepublic/10844808/Sir-Nicholas-Winton-at-105-the-man-who-gave-669-Czech-children-the-greatest-gift.html|title=Sir Nicholas Winton at 105: the man who gave 669 Czech children the 'greatest gift'|date=21 May 2014|last=Singh|first=Anita|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=19 May 2020|url-access=subscription}}</ref> On 28 October 2014, Winton was awarded the Order of the White Lion (Class I) by Czech President Miloš Zeman,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/seznam-osobnosti-vyznamenanych-letos-pri-prilezitosti-28-rijna/1140646|title=Seznam osobností vyznamenaných letos při příležitosti 28. října|author=ČTK|publisher=ceskenoviny.cz}}(en checo)</ref> the Czech Defence Ministry having sent a special aircraft to bring him to Prague. The award was made alongside one to Sir Winston Churchill, which was accepted by his grandson Nicholas Soames. Zeman said he regretted the highest Czech award having been awarded to the two personalities so belatedly, but added "better late than never".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.praguepost.com/czech-news/42318-white-lion-goes-to-winton-and-winston|title=White Lion goes to Winton and Winston|work=The Prague Post|date=28 October 2014}}</ref> Winton was also able to meet some of the people he rescued 75 years earlier, themselves then in their 80s. He said, "I want to thank you all for this enormous expression of thanks for something which happened to me nearly 100 years ago— and 100 years is a heck of a long time. I am delighted that so many of the children are still about and are here to thank me."<ref name="Telegraph.co.uk" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29798434|title=Nicholas Winton honoured by Czechs for saving children from Nazis|work=BBC News|date=28 October 2014}}</ref>

=== List of national honours === {| class="wikitable sortable" !Country !Date !Appointment !Ribbon !Post-nominal letters !Notes |- |United Kingdom |10 June 1983 |Member of the Order of the British Empire |frameless|96x96px |MBE |<ref name=":1" /> |- |Czech Republic |1998 |Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Fourth Class |frameless|96x96px | |<ref>{{cite web |title=List of holders of the Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Order |url=http://www.hrad.cz/en/czech-republic/state-decorations/tomas-garrigue-masaryk-order/list.shtml |access-date=3 September 2009 |work=Prague Castle site |publisher=Office of the President of the Czech Republic}}</ref> |- |United Kingdom |31 December 2002 |Knight Bachelor |frameless|96x96px | |<ref name=":2" /> |- |Czech Republic |2014 |Order of the White Lion 1st Class |frameless|96x96px | |<ref name="Telegraph.co.uk" /> |- |Czech Republic |2008 |Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defence, Grade I. |frameless|96x96px | | |} *

== Memorials == On 22 April 2016, a remembrance quarter peal was rung and a new method named ''Sir Nicholas Winton Delight'' by bellringers of the Whiting Society of Ringers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1004328 |website= bb.ringingworld.co.uk |title= Ringing World BellBoard |first= Alan |last= Rowe |date= 25 April 2016 |access-date= 8 May 2016}}</ref>

On 19 May 2016, a memorial service for Winton was held at London's Guildhall, attended by some 400 people, including 28 of those he saved, and Czech, Slovak and UK government representatives.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36325187|title=Nicholas Winton memorial service honours Holocaust hero|work=BBC News|date=19 May 2016}}</ref> On 20 May, military charity Glen Art presented a memorial concert celebrating Winton's life with Jason Isaacs, Rupert Graves and Alexander Baillie, at St John's, Smith Square. All funds donated were given to charities supporting Syrian refugee children.<ref>{{cite web|title=Concert celebrating Sir Nicholas Winton to raise funds for Syrian refugees |url=http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/concert-celebrating-sir-nicholas-winton-to-raise-funds-for-syrian-refugees/|work=Jewish News|date=16 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Birmingham musicians honour 'British Schindler'|url=http://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/about-us/news/sir-nicholas-winton|work=Royal Birmingham Conservatoire|date=6 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Concert celebrating Sir Nicholas Winton to raise funds for Syrian refugees |url=https://www.glenart.co.uk/sir-nicholas-winton/|work=Glen Art|date=20 May 2016}}</ref>

On 14 July 2017, a memorial garden for Winton was opened in Maidenhead Oaken Grove park by Prime Minister and local Maidenhead MP Theresa May.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/maidenhead/118105/video-prime-minister-theresa-may-officially-opens-sir-nicholas-winton-memorial-garden-in-maidenhead.html |title=VIDEO: Prime Minister Theresa May officially opens Sir Nicholas Winton Memorial Garden in Maidenhead |date=14 July 2017 |last=Hine |first=Nicola |website=Maidenhead Advertiser |access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref> [[File:Winton Stone.jpg|alt=Memorial stone in the grounds of the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary (2023)|thumb|Memorial stone in the grounds of the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary (2023)]]

== In popular culture == A play about Winton, ''Numbers from Prague'', was performed in Cambridge in January 2011.<ref>{{cite web | publisher = Keystage | year = 2011 | url = http://www.keystage-company.co.uk/Keystage_Arts_and_Heritage_Company/Project_Portfolio/Entries/2011/7/21_NUMBERS_FROM_PRAGUE.html | title = Numbers from Prague | access-date = 4 December 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140307234216/http://www.keystage-company.co.uk/Keystage_Arts_and_Heritage_Company/Project_Portfolio/Entries/2011/7/21_NUMBERS_FROM_PRAGUE.html | archive-date = 7 March 2014 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="eajc">[http://www.jewishcultureineurope.org/grant10.htm La Asociación Europea para la Cultura Judía] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113135401/http://www.jewishcultureineurope.org/grant10.htm |date=13 January 2019 }}, premios de becas de teatro 2010.</ref>

In 2019, a one-act play titled ''The Father of 669'' was performed in the Firodiya Karandak in Pune.<ref>{{cite video | people = Padma Art Circle | title = Firodiya Karandak 2019 – The Father Of 669 (Making) [PVPIT] | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMtIU6bTpPo | website = YouTube | publisher = YouTube | date = 28 February 2019 | access-date = 31 August 2025 }}</ref>

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's ''Today'' programme on 28 October 2014, Winton said he thought he had "made a difference to a lot of people" and went on to say, "I don't think we've learned anything… the world today is in a more dangerous situation than it has ever been."<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-29800804 |title= Sir Nicholas Winton: I've made a difference |work= BBC News|date=28 October 2014}}</ref>

On 19 May 2020, Google honoured Winton's legacy on the 111th anniversary of his birth with a Google Doodle.<ref>[https://doodles.google/doodle/nicholas-wintons-111th-birthday/ Cumpleaños 111 de Nicholas Winton]. Google. 19 de mayo de 2020. Consultado el 19 de mayo de 2020.</ref>

Winton's story was told by David Suchet as part of the 2022 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert, which aired on PBS in December 2023.<ref>Johnson, Lottie Elizabeth (16 December 2022). [https://www.deseret.com/2022/12/16/23509492/tabernacle-choir-2022-christmas-concert-lea-salonga-david-suchet "5 highlights from the Tabernacle Choir's Christmas Concert"]. ''Deseret News''. Retrieved 15 December 2023.</ref>

===Films=== Winton's work is the subject of three films by Slovak filmmaker Matej Mináč''':''' the drama ''All My Loved Ones'' (1999),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://imdb.com/title/tt0218705/ |title = Všichni moji blízcí (1999) |website=Internet Movie Database | access-date =1 September 2009}}</ref> in which Winton was played by Rupert Graves; the documentary ''The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton'' (''Síla lidskosti—Nicholas Winton'', 2002), which won an Emmy Award;<ref>{{cite web |url = http://imdb.com/title/tt0328499 | title =Síla lidskosti&nbsp;– Nicholas Winton (2002)|website = Internet Movie Database|access-date=1 September 2009}}</ref> and the documentary drama ''Nicky's Family''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-07-18 |title=Nicky's Family |pages=31 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-nickys-family/132312721/ |access-date=2023-09-24}}</ref>

He features in ''Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport'' (2000), winner of the 2001 Academy Award for best feature documentary. It was produced by Deborah Oppenheimer and written and directed by three-time Academy Award–winning filmmaker Mark Jonathan Harris.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2001-01-27 |title=Children of Nazi Germany escape into arms of strangers |language=en |pages=13 |work=The Indianapolis Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-children-of-nazi-g/132313746/ |access-date=2023-09-24}}</ref>

Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn respectively play elderly and young Winton respectively in ''One Life''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bamigboye |first=Baz |date=2022-09-01 |title=Helena Bonham Carter Joins Anthony Hopkins And Johnny Flynn In Holocaust Rescue Drama 'One Life'; 'Black Mirror' Director James Hawes To Make Feature Debut |url=https://deadline.com/2022/09/helena-bonham-carter-anthony-hopkins-johnny-flynn-one-life-james-hawes-1235105052/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref> The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival<ref>{{cite web | last=Bevan | first=Nathan | title=Sir Anthony Hopkins to play Nicholas Winton in One Life | website=BBC News | date=9 August 2023 | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-66439471 | access-date=10 August 2023}}</ref><ref name="Grdn2023">{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Benjamin |title=Review One Life review – Anthony Hopkins moves in stirring second world war drama |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/sep/10/one-life-review-anthony-hopkins |access-date=8 December 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=10 September 2023}}</ref> and was released in the UK on 1 January 2024 by Warner Bros. Pictures.<ref>{{Cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=2023-07-24 |title=TIFF Lineup Unveiled Amid Strikes: Awards Contenders 'Dumb Money', 'The Holdovers', 'Rustin'; Starry Pics For Sale With Scarlett Johansson, Kate Winslet, Michael Keaton, Viggo Mortensen & More |url=https://deadline.com/2023/07/2023-toronto-film-festival-lineup-movies-list-1235446040/ |access-date=2023-07-24 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=James Hawes' One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins, announced as American Express Gala film at the 67th BFI London Film Festival |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/one-life-announced-american-express-gala-film-67th-bfi-london-film-festival |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=BFI |date=11 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

== See also == {{Portal|Biography|Judaism}} * Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust * List of Righteous Among the Nations by country

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Further reading == *{{cite journal |last1=Brade |first1=Laura E. |last2=Holmes |first2=Rose |title=Troublesome Sainthood: Nicholas Winton and the Contested History of Child Rescue in Prague, 1938–1940 |journal=History and Memory |date=2017 |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=3–40 |doi=10.2979/histmemo.29.1.0003 |jstor=10.2979/histmemo.29.1.0003 |s2cid=159631013 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/histmemo.29.1.0003 |issn=0935-560X|url-access=subscription }} * Winton, Barbara (2014), ''If It's Not Impossible... The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton'', Matador, {{ISBN|978-1-78306-520-2}} * {{cite book | last1=Harris | first1=Mark Jonathan | last2=Oppenheimer | first2=Deborah | title=Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | publisher=Bloomsbury USA | publication-place=New York | date=2001 | isbn=978-1-58234-162-0}} * {{Cite book|title= Get the Children Out! Unsung heroes of the Kindertransport |first= Mike | last=Levy |publisher=Lemon Soul, UK |year=2023 |pages=268| isbn=978-1-999378141}}

== External links == {{Commons category|Nicholas Winton}} * {{IMDb name |1051211}} * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nFuJAF5F0 Sir Nicholas Winton's meeting with many of the people he saved] (BBC programme ''That's Life!'' aired in 1988) * Sir Nicholas Winton's page on [https://maidenheadheritage.org.uk/hall-of-fame-2/sir-nicholas-winton/ Maidenhead Heritage Centre Hall of Fame] * {{cite web|url=https://english.radio.cz/nicholas-winton-film-wins-emmy-new-york-8068312|title= Nicholas Winton film wins Emmy in New York|date= 26 November 2002|access-date =2 January 2024|website=Radio Prague International}} * [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=186639 The New York Times Review of All My Loved Ones] * [http://www.powerofgood.net/ Nicholas Winton – The Power of Good] * {{Citation | title = Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | url = http://www.intothearmsofstrangers.com/}} * {{cite news|title=Breakfast With Frost: Interview with Nicholas Winton & Alfred Dubs|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/2629177.stm|publisher=BBC Breakfast|date=5 January 2003}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140527213559/http://www.storyvault.com/video/view/id/219 Interview with Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines, one of the children saved] * {{cite news|title=Retracing a life-saving journey|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8227929.stm |work=BBC News|date= 31 August 2009}} * {{Find a Grave|148511249}} {{s-start}} {{s-ach}} {{s-bef|before=Maria Gunnoe}} {{s-ttl|title=Wallenberg Medalist|years=2013}} {{s-aft|after=Ágnes Heller}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}

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