UK - Briton who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis dies at 106

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Channel: FRANCE 24 English · 2015 · News & Politics

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Nicholas Winton, a Briton who saved hundreds of Jewish children in Prague from the Nazis in the run-up to World War II, has died at the age of 106, his family said on Wednesday.

Son-in-law Stephen Watson said Winton died peacefully in his sleep at Wexham Hospital in Slough, west of London.

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