By Leon Watson A British man who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Holocaust is to be given the highest honour of the Czech Republic. Sir Nicholas Winton, who celebrated his 105th birthday last week, organised the transport of 669 children – mostly Jewish – from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Independently of Operation Kindertransport, which did not include the children of Czechoslovakia, he ensured that over the course of nine months before the Second World War broke out in September 1939 they made their way to Britain. Sir Nicholas Winton, organised the transport of 669 children - mostly Jewish - from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, at the Czech Embassy in London
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Sir Nicholas Winton  organised the transport of 669 children to the UK
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Without him, they would almost certainly have been killed by the Nazis
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Almost all of their parents went on to die in Nazi concentration camps
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He forged documents and bribed officials before he could get them out
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Winton, who is now 105, kept his story quiet for nearly 50 years
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Even the children he transported did not know he had saved them
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Now the Czech Republic will honour him for saving its children
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