On the eve of World War II, Winton was a stock trader in London. While passing through the Czech Republic, Winton discovered a large number of Jewish children who had been detained by the Nazis. He lobbied the German military to let them go and handed them over to him for transportation to the UK. The rescue work was dangerous and difficult, and in the end, he used various connections to rescue 669 children with 8 trains
On the eve of World War II, Winton was a stock trader in London. While passing through the Czech Republic, Winton discovered a large number of Jewish children who had been detained by the Nazis. He lobbied the German military to let them go and handed them over to him for transportation to the UK. The rescue work was dangerous and difficult, and in the end, he used various connections to rescue 669 children with 8 trains