Sir Nicholas Winton celebrates centenary with some of those whose lives he saved

Sir Nicholas Winton, a British man who saved the lives of almost 700 Czechoslovak Jewish children on the eve of World War II, celebrated his 100th birthday in London on Saturday, in the company of some of those whose lives he had saved. Mr Winton organized transport out of Czechoslovakia and UK visas for 669 mostly Jewish children shortly before Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Nazis in 1938. Today, ‘Winton’s children’ have around 5,000 descendents.