LC control no. | n 2001088349 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Winton, Nicholas, 1909-2015 |
Variant(s) | Wertheim, Nicholas George, 1909-2015 |
Associated place | Czechoslovakia |
Located | West Hampstead (London, England) |
Birth date | 1909-05-19 |
Death date | 2015-07-01 |
Place of birth | London (England) |
Place of death | Maidenhead (England) |
Field of activity | Kindertransports (Rescue operations) |
Found in | Nicholas Winton and the power of humanity, 2001: CIP t.p. (Nicholas Winton) p. 1 (b. 19 May 1909 in West Hampstead [U.K.]) New York times WWW site, viewed July 2, 2015 (in obituary published July 1: Nicholas Winton; b. Nicholas George Wertheim, May 19, 1909, London; his parents were of German-Jewish origin but converted to Christianity and changed the family name to Winton; grew up in West Hampstead; d. Wednesday [July 1, 2015], Maidenhead, aged 106; Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, a righteous deed like those of Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg) |