How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting) from the Holocaust: ‘He became everybody’s grandfather’

Four generations owe their lives to the man who brought trainloads of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to Britain in 1939.

The original refugees remember the Kindertransport – and the shy stockbroker who got them on it.

Nicholas Winton didn’t like to make a fuss.

The British humanitarian was a modest and unassuming man, who was loth to grandstand about his achievements.

The fact that he helped to save 669 children from the Holocaust was a secret he kept for many years.

“If there was…