Sir Nicholas Winton was a British humanitarian who, in the months leading up to World War II, organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia, saving them from almost certain death in Nazi concentration camps. His effort became known as part of the Czech Kindertransport. Winton, who was just 29 years old at the time, was working as a stockbroker in London. But in late 1938, he traveled to Prague to help a friend with refugee work. What he found moved him so deeply that he