Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued almost 700 children headed for Nazi concentration camps, has died at the age of 106. He arranged for children to be evacuated from Prague and Vienna for a new life in Britain - but kept quiet about his heroics for half a century. | Channel 4 News

WATCH: Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children during the Holocaust. Some of the survivors surprised him 50 years later. | Hananya Naftali

#OnThisDay 1909: Sir Nicholas Winton was born. In 1938, he brought Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in the UK. Fifty years later, That’s Life reunited him with some of those children. You can see the full story here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/nicholas_winton_on_thats_life/zbmxhbk | BBC Archive

Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 Jewish children from the Holocaust in 1939, has died aged 106. "Britain's Schindler" has passed away 76 years to-the-day since the train carrying the largest number of children, 241, departed from Prague. Here is Jon Snow reporting on the man being honoured last year. | Channel 4 News

The British Stockbroker Who Outsmarted the Nazis For 50 years, Nicholas Winton held onto a secret that would eventually bring the world to tears. In 1938, sensing the impending doom of World War II, this ordinary British stockbroker abandoned his holiday to travel to Nazi-occupied Prague. Witnessing the desperate plight of Jewish refugee children, he took matters into his own hands. Operating from a hotel room, he forged documents, bribed officials, and organized a kindertransport operation righ

"I never heard what happened to all those children, until now"... Decades after saving over 600 children in a heroic feat during the war, Nicholas Winton was "tricked" into appearing on television to be given a surprise that would moved him to tears. | Positive