The Stockbroker Who Became a Father to 669

In December 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday and traveled to Prague instead. What he found in the refugee camps — hundreds of Jewish children with nowhere to go and no one to claim them — changed the entire trajectory of his life. Winton had no experience in rescue operations. He had no organizational backing, no government authority, no logical reason to believe he could succeed.…