LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

BBC viewers have been loving One Life since it was added to the iPlayer earlier this month with many praising the tearjerking film that stars Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter ...

In December 1938 Nicholas Winton, a 29-year-old British stockbroker, scrapped his plans for a skiing vacation in Switzerland and flew instead to Prague. He had come, at the invitation of a friend, to ...

Nicholas Wenton was a young clerk at the London Stock Exchange during World War II when he almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust. "Britian's Schindler", as he ...

“There are around 6,000 people in the world today who owe their lives to Nicholas Winton,” writes his late daughter in this straightforward account of his life, referring to the descendants of the ...

Zuzana Marešová, one of the children rescued from Prague in 1939 by Nicholas Winton and his colleagues, has died at 94.

LONDON (AP) — “Is there anyone in our audience tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton?” asked the presenter of the popular BBC magazine program “That’s Life”. Around the elderly man, sitting ...

Nicholas Winton, a comfortable young banker in 1930s England, could have, like most of his countrymen before World War II, carried on with his life. Instead, made aware of Hitler’s movements, he took ...

PRAGUE (AP) - The president of the Czech Republic has awarded a Briton his country's highest state honor for organizing a mass evacuation of children to save them from Nazi death camps. Sir Nicholas ...

In 1939, Sir Nicholas Winton quietly orchestrated the rescue of 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe, giving them a chance at life while much of the world looked away. He kept his heroic ...

LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - A man who became known as the "British Schindler" for saving hundreds of Czech children from Nazi persecution in the run-up to World War Two, has died at the age of 106.

LONDON, England -- 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 ...