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Nicholas Winton (Rescuer) Nicholas Winton was born on May 19, 1909, in West Harpstead, England. He was a member of the Anglican Church but was born a German Jew. During the Holocaust Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Czech children from their doomed fate in the Nazi death camps. What he had to do to accomplish this was to find families for the kids, pay 50 pounds per kid, and he had to bribe Germans to allow him to take the kids out of Germany. The reason he saved the kids was because he felt really bad for them. He didn’t want the kids to die in concentration camps, too. He also felt bad that the kids had no future because they were going to die. Nicholas Winton is still alive and is 99 years old. “Nicholas Winton and the Rescue of children from Czechoslovakia.”__Ushmm.org.__ 5/6/09.  Poisner, Susan. “Nicholas Winton.” __Jewish virtual Library__. 5/6/09. 