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What was initially scheduled as a European ski vacation, resulted in a London banker's incredible humanitarian effort to rescue Jewish children from Czechoslovakia prior to WWII.  Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British banker and humanitarian who established an organization to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany.  Winton supervised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Winton found homes …