Sir Nicholas Winton - great man in the Czech Republic

Sir Nicholas Winton was a British humanitarian who rescued children at risk from concentration camps. In 1938 Mr. Winton rescued 669 children, most of them from Czechoslovakia, on the eve of World War II. He arranged for their safe passage to Britain and found homes for the children. This operation was later known as the Czech Kindertransport.

Mr. Winton's work went unnoticed by the world for nearly 50 years, until 1988 when he was invited to the BBC television programme "That's Life". During this programme, he was reunited with several of the children he had saved. The British press celebrated him and dubbed him the "British Schindler." In 2003, Mr. Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to humanity". On Oct 28, 2014, he was awarded the highest honour of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion (1st Class), by Czech President H.E. Miloš Zeman.