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Prague, Czechoslovakia, Nicholas Winton holds a boy who was being flown from Prague to London, January 1939.
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Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker, organized and financed a rescue operation that brought approximately 669 children, mostly Jewish, from Czechoslovakia to Great Britain before WWII.
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Archival Signature
8893/1
Source
Nicolas Winton
Credit
Yad Vashem
Place
Prague,Praha Hlavni Mesto,Bohemia,Czechoslovakia
Date of Accession
24/06/2009
Type of material
Photograph