Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE
(*1909) Great Britain
Contribution to the dialogue of national culture
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 was awarded Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Fourth Class, by Václav Havel in 1998. In the 1983 Queen‘s Birthday Honours, he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his work in establishing the Abbeyfield homes for the elderly in Britain, and in the 2002 New Year Honours, he was knighted in recognition of his work on the Czech Kindertransporte. His story was filmed in All My Loved Ones (1999), The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002) and Nicky‘s Family (2011). He was also nominated for the 2008 and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.
