Winton was a 29-year-old stock exchange clerk in 1938 when he began to fear — correctly — that Jewish residents of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia would be sent to concentration camps. Winton arranged trains to carry Jewish children from occupied Prague to Britain, battling bureaucracy at both ends and saving them from almost certain death — and then kept quiet about his exploits for a half-century.

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