Sir Nicholas Winton, MBE (b.1909) - Kindertransport organizer

Started by Malka Mysels on Friday, June 21, 2013
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6/21/2013 at 9:55 AM

A true life affirming story of the transcendental power of good!

1. http://www.powerofgood.net/story.php Nicholas Winton - The Power of Good

2. http://www.nicholaswinton.com/WintonsList/children.htm

3. http://www.change.org/petitions/nobel-prize-committee-award-sir-nic...

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton
Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE, (born 19 May 1909) is 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 found homes for them and arranged for their safe passage to Britain.[2] The UK press has dubbed him the "British Schindler".

Winton was born in Hampstead, London to parents of German Jewish origin who had moved there in 1907.[4] The family name was Wertheim, but they subsequently changed it to Winton in an effort at integration.

6/21/2013 at 2:23 PM

Randy Schoenberg, Private User, Pam Karp Any advice how to find ancestral family tree information on Czech Kindertransport organizer, Nicholas Winton (Wertheim) the "British Schindler?

Also, see list of children saved: http://www.nicholaswinton.com/WintonsList/images.htm (Click on each link)

"Dozens of Winton's "children" have been found and to this day his family has grown to almost 6,000 people, many of whom have gone on to achieve great things themselves." http://www.menemshafilms.com/nickys-family

6/22/2013 at 12:04 PM
6/22/2013 at 7:49 PM

Terry Jackson (Switzer) Any British projects you can add Sir Nicholas Winton to?
Randy Schoenberg Super! Thanks so much.

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6/22/2013 at 9:52 PM

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=DiO0_i4FVoQC&pg=PA54&lp... shows his parents as Rudolph and Barbara Wertheim.

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34567/pages/6930/page.pdf shows the gazettal of the name change for Nicholas, his mother, his brother and his sister.

Barbara was Babette (or Babi) Wortham or Wertheim

6/23/2013 at 6:44 AM

Source added - renunciation of name.

6/23/2013 at 2:38 PM

Malka Mysels I added him to two projects I can't think what others may be appropriate.

6/23/2013 at 10:18 PM
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6/24/2013 at 1:47 AM

Various other documents have been found:

Nicholas' father Rudolf is involved in liquidation of WEISS, BIHELLEB & BROOKS Limited in 1933

See http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33964/pages/5064/page.pdf and http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33942/pages/3481/page.pdf

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In 1915, Rudolf had changed is name to Wortham - see http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29269/pages/8329/page.pdf

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http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34443/pages/6344/page.pdf

RUDOLF WERTHEIM died on the 6th day of July 1937.

Executor: Emil Georg (in the Will called Emil) Wertheimer of Lyndhurst Rutland Road Ellesmere Park Eccles Manchester in the county of Lancaster.

Emil Georg Wertheimer is Nicholas Winton's mother's brother Emil Georg Wertheimer

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http://www.movinghere.org.uk/deliveryfiles/PRO/HO396_101_186/0/1.pdf re Emil Georg Wertheimer.

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Ship passenger record for Emil Georg Wertheimer:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&gsln=Werthe...

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1911 UK census image has been posted on Rudolf Wertheim's profile

10/28/2013 at 12:14 PM

www.upworthy.com/669-jewish-children-were-saved-from-the-holocaust-...

Sir Nicholas Winton rescued and found homes
for almost 700 Jewish children destined for a Nazi death camp. This clip takes place 50 years after the rescue.

This is how they thanked him :)

10/28/2013 at 12:34 PM
10/28/2013 at 12:37 PM

"Winton's work is the subject of three films by Slovak filmmaker Matej Mináč: the drama All My Loved Ones (1999),[39] in which Winton was played by Rupert Graves, the documentary The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (Síla lidskosti—Nicholas Winton, 2002), which won an Emmy Award.[40] and the documentary drama Nicky's Family (Nickyho rodina, 2011)."

I haven't seen any of them, but I imagine they're all worth watching!

Wonder, how do people nominate people for a:
nobel peace prize laureate ?
This man deserves one, for sure ...
~ Susan Lynne Schwenger

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2/1/2014 at 1:34 AM

No path found to Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE.

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