Nicholas Winton will turn 100 years old later this year. In 1939 he was a stockbroker in London, who by chance ended up saving the lives of 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia. In the months before the German invasion of Poland, he managed to arrange the transport and adoption of children from the un-occupied part of Czechoslovakia, convinced that it was only a matter of time before the Nazis took control of the entire country. On September 1, 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland, the largest transport was to leave Europe. Because of the invasion, it never left, and those 250 children were never seen again. He is an ordinary person who saw a terrible situation and decided to do something about it. For saving so many lives- especially children- he is a Saint.
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