Nicholas Winton, né Nicholas Wertheim, le 19mai1909 à Hampstead, un quartier de Londres, et mort le 1erjuillet20151,2 à Slough3, est un courtier en valeurs mobilières britannique4 qui organisa le sauvetage de 669 enfants juifstchécoslovaques d'un destin fatal avant le déclenchement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Surnommé le « Schindler britannique »5, anobli en 2002 pour ses actes de bravoure, il lui est rendu hommage par David Cameron, Premier ministre britannique, en ces termes : « Le monde a perdu un grand homme. Nous ne devons jamais oublier l’humanité dont a fait preuve Sir Nicholas Winton en sauvant tant d’enfants de la Shoah. »
Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE, (born 19 May 1909) is a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for them and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. The UK press has dubbed him the "British Schindler". he humbly kept his efforts a secret, until his wife found scrapbooks about the children in their attic. Winton was Knighted by the Queen of England, who said of Winton: "It's wonderful that you were able to save so many children."
