Reporting from London — Nicholas Winton, a humanitarian who almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust, earning himself the label “Britain’s Schindler,” has died. He ...

Before World War II, Winton helped Jewish children escape and hide with British host families Sir Nicholas Winton, a British man who saved more than 600 children from the Holocaust, died on Wednesday ...

(Above, watch the "60 Minutes" profile of Nicholas Winton, which was broadcast in 2014.) LONDON --He was just a 29-year-old clerk at the London Stock Exchange when he faced the challenge of his ...

LONDON (AP) — Nicholas Winton, a humanitarian who almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust, earning himself the label "Britain's Schindler," has died. He was 106.

Nicholas Winton holds flowers while sitting on a stage after the premiere of the movie "Nicky's family" which is based on his life story in Prague January 20, 2011. REUTERS/Petr Josek LONDON (Reuters) ...

LONDON – He was just a 29-year-old clerk at the London Stock Exchange when he faced the challenge of a lifetime. Traveling with a friend to Czechoslovakia in 1938, as the drums of impending war echoed ...

On the eve of World War II, several hundred children in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia—most of them Jewish—were destined to be taken to death camps. They owed their last-minute escape to the efforts of ...

That was the question that Nicholas Winton, a 29-year-old English stockbroker, asked when he found himself in Prague in 1938. As war loomed in Europe, groups had initiated efforts to aid Jews, ...

For decades, Nicholas Winton’s son Nick knew his father had done something during the 1930s and that a scrapbook of old photos in a steel trunk had something to do with it. But in 1988, he learned the ...

PRAGUE – The president of the Czech Republic has congratulated a Briton who organized mass evacuations of children to save them from Nazi concentration camps and announced he will award him the ...