Early Life
Nicholas George Wertheim, known as Nicky, was born on 19th May 1909 in Hampstead, London.
Exhibition
Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again.
This is his story.
This exhibition is a tour through some of the personal items and documents held in the Sir Nicholas Winton Memorial Trust, illustrating different episodes in his life. His work on the Czech and Slovak Kindertransport in 1939 is best known but his early life, his war and post-war service and later charitable work are also explored. After his story became known, he received international recognition though more importantly, he became friends with many of the rescued children - the Kinder.
Exhibition Chapters
Czech & Slovak Kindertransport
The word ‘Kindertransport’ is used to describe the large scale transportation by train of ten thousand endangered, mostly Jewish, children from Austria...
War-time & post war work
Nicky left the Stock exchange in August 1939, to volunteer as leader of his local Air Raid Precautions depot being set up by Hampstead council.
Family & Community
It was while working for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Paris that Nicky encountered his future wife, Grete Gjelstrup, the Danish secretary of his employer.
Recognition
In 1987 Nicky was introduced to Dr Elizabeth Maxwell while trying to find a suitable home for his Kindertransport papers enclosed in a scrapbook.
Building on Nicky's Legacy
Nicky’s legacy is primarily that more than 6000 people are now alive because of the Kindertransport rescue.
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All images and text in the exhibition may be reused with attribution for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 