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State & history

In 1939, which British man organised the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to Britain?

  • ✕ Clement Attlee Your answer
  • B Neville Chamberlain
  • C Alan Turing
  • ✓ Nicholas Winton

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Nicholas Winton arranged trains and British foster families for children fleeing Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia. His work became widely known only in 1988, and he was knighted in 2003.

Source: Holocaust Memorial Day Trust – Nicholas Winton; Encyclopaedia Britannica

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