Winton in Prague on 10 October 2007.
19 May 1909
Hampstead, London, England
|Alma mater||Stowe School|
|Spouse||Grete Gjelstrup (m. 1948–1999)|
Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE (born Chain Wertheimer; 19 May 1909) is an English humanitarian. He is best known for his role in the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia before World War II. This event became known as the Czech Kindertransport.
Winton was born Chain Wertheimer in Hampstead, London. His parents were German Jews. The family later became Christians and Winton was baptised. In 1923, he began studying at Stowe School. He married Grete Gjelstrup, an English woman of Danish origin, in 1948. They were married until Gjelstrup's death in 1999. They had two children together, Nicholas and Barbara.
References[change | change source]
- "Nicholas Winton biography". jewishvirtuallibrary.org. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Winton.html. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
Other websites[change | change source]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Nicholas Winton|