Zuzana Marešová, one of Winton’s rescued children, dies at 94

Zuzana Marešová, née Spitzerová, one of the 669 predominantly Jewish children evacuated from Prague to London at the outbreak of the Second World War thanks to Nicholas Winton, has died at the age of 94.

She was the last surviving child in the Czech Republic rescued by Winton through the Kindertransport operation.

Representatives of the Paměť národa (Memory of Nations) announced her death on Facebook on Sunday. The organisation previously documented and published Marešová’s story on its website.

In 1939, Winton organised the departure of hundreds of children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, arranging their transport to safety in Britain in the months before the war began.