Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Richard Sowersby (3029275bw) A statue of Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE with two of the Jewish refugee children on the platform of Prague railway station in the Czech Republic. Sir Sir Nicholas George Winton, 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. Prague, Czech Republic - Jun 2013