# Such a pleasure to discover a "new" and genuine hero - Nicholas Winton **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069 "2014-04-14T04:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/21 "2014-05-06T00:54:19Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Bumping this because Nicholas Winton is being profiled tonight on _60 Minutes_. > > Edit:If it already aired in your area, you can watch the segment [here](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-the-children-during-world-war-11-60-minutes/). This would be just a great story, but I was in Prague last month. I toured the Jewish ghetto & Pinkas synagogue (about 10:25 into the above segment). The second floor was filled with names; almost 80,000 names. It was knee buckling. The next day I toured Terezin (concentration camp). There is a room in the main fortress that has the names of all of the children that passed thru. Thousands of names. Just the children. They would have needed a smaller font if not for Mr. Winton. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/22 "2014-05-06T16:52:05Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Here’s [an interview with him](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm0JGkc2P_0) from last year. The highly respected [**Joe Schlesinger**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Schlesinger), a CBC newsman for decades, says [**in one of the sidebar videos**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDW_Q4TEPHc) at the above link (the 55-second mark) that he was one of the rescued children. That brings it close to home. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/23 "2014-05-24T01:59:19Z")
I’m a little late on this, but Sir Nicholas Winton turned 105 on Monday.I agree with the OP and everything good said about this man. I saw the documentary in the theater and was floored that I’d never heard the story before. Even though he indicates he doesn’t really like the attention, I’m glad that he has been getting attention while he’s still alive, so he can meet so many of the children he rescued, and their children, and their grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren. it’s an amazing thing to be able to trace such a legacy. The Czech Republic will be giving him their [highest honor.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/21/sir-nicholas-winton_n_5365539.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular) > [@](#): > > The story of Sir Nicholas Winton is one of the most profound tales of humanitarianism that you’ve probably never heard. > > After saving 669 children, most of them Jewish, from likely death at Nazi concentration camps at the onset of World War II, it was announced Monday – on Winton’s 105th birthday – that the heroic Englishman will be awarded the Order of the White Lion, the highest order in the Czech Republic, the Associated Press reported. In the official announcement, Czech President Milos Zeman noted Winton’s example of humanity, selflessness, personal bravery and modesty as reasons for the prestigious honor. The award will be given to Winton this October. > > … Come on, the man is 105. Every day counts. Why wait until October? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/24 "2014-05-24T11:32:05Z")
Really! October?! Well, he’s waited 105 years … what can another few months matter? ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/25 "2014-10-28T19:26:53Z")
Sir Nicholas got his award from the Czech Republic today. > **[‘British Schindler’ honoured for saving 669 children from the Nazis](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/sir-nicholas-winton-british-schindler-order-of-the-white-lion-czech-republic)** > > Sir Nicholas Winton awarded with Order of the White Lion in Czech Republic The Czechs provided a plane for him so that he would get back home by his normal bedtime. 😃 Edit: This report has video > **[Nicholas Winton honoured by Czechs for saving children from Nazis](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29798434)** > > A Briton who saved 669 children, most of them Jews, from the Nazis is awarded the Czech Republic's highest state honour by the president. ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/26 "2014-10-28T21:41:40Z")
The dust today is awful. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/27 "2015-07-01T22:08:38Z")
Rest in Peace, beautiful man. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/28 "2015-07-01T22:15:32Z")
Here’s the New York Times [obituary](http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/world/europe/nicholas-winton-is-dead-at-106-saved-children-from-the-holocaust.html?referrer=). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/29 "2015-07-01T22:30:04Z")
Thank you for posting this. I’m very saddened by this. I think the man lived as fulfilling and worthwhile a life as anyone could possibly hope for. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/30 "2015-07-02T08:48:39Z")
RIP Sir Nicholas. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/31 "2015-07-02T16:01:29Z")
A quietly great man. Order of the White Lion, indeed. So appropriate that he lived until the day the headline was “World Jewish Population Approaches pre-Holocaust levels,” as he is directly responsible for some of that recovery. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/32 "2015-07-02T20:54:36Z")
He got a full page obituary in the Times today. ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/33 "2015-07-02T21:10:21Z")
I wear contact lenses .they irritate me sometimes . RIP Sir Nicholas Winton ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/34 "2015-07-02T22:32:00Z")
Aye, RIP Sir Winton; you done good. _Real_ good. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069/35 "2015-07-03T01:02:13Z")
There are times I despair of the Human species. And then there are the Nicholas Wintons’ of the world that give me hope. RIP. Hope I typed this right…I seem to have got something in my eyes… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/such-a-pleasure-to-discover-a-new-and-genuine-hero-nicholas-winton/686069.md?page=1)