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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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) ...

Nicholas Winton, who spent a two-week vacation to Prague in 1938 rescuing 669 children from almost certain death during the Holocaust, died Wednesday in Maidenhead, England. He was 106 years old. The ...

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, ...

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 ...

The following script is from "Saving the Children" which aired on April 27, 2014, and was rebroadcast on Aug. 31, 2014. Bob Simon is the correspondent. Harry Radliffe and Vanessa Fica, producers. Now, ...

Mark Phillips is the CBS News senior foreign correspondent and has been based in the London Bureau since 1993. He has covered every major international story of the past 35 years, including conflicts ...

Compelled to act, Sir Nicholas Winton rescued Jewish children in the Holocaust. June 27, 2008— -- In 1938, Sir Nicholas Winton was an everyday stockbroker. But when Hitler's troops marched into ...