Saviour: Sir Nicholas Winton with Vera Gissing and Vera Schaufeld, two of the children he saved
The man who saved hundreds of children from death in the Holocaust has died aged 106.
Sir Nicholas Winston, who was born in Hampstead, brought 669 children to England from Prague, in Czechoslovakia.
He died exactly 76 years to the day since a train carrying 241 children he had saved departed from Prague.
He kept the story to himself for many years until an old scrapbook containing the details of it emerged and in 2003, he was knighted for services to humanity.
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