Topolánek presents Sir Nicholas Winton with PM’s medal

The Czech leader Mirek Topolánek has presented a prime minister’s medal to Sir Nicholas Winton, an Englishman who saved the lives of hundreds of Czechoslovak Jewish children during World War II. Mr Topolánek said he hoped Czech children today would learn about Sir Nicholas’s story. Mr Winton, who is 99, told reporters in Prague he was moved to receive such an award. During the war he managed to get 669 Czechoslovak Jewish children to safety in the UK; today “Winton’s Children” have around 5,000 descendants.