Nicholas G. Winton collection

Identifier
irn500167
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0488
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500167

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Creator(s)

  • Nicholas Winton

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Nicholas Winton, with assistance from Ilse Rene Achter.

Scope and Content

Contains photocopies of pages from the book "Time Zones" by Joe Schlesinger; a photocopy of a names list containing hundreds of Czech children brought to the United Kingdom by the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Children's Section, under the leadership of Nicholas Winton; and a photocopy of an article published in the "Evening Post" 21 June 1991 entitled "Prague Reunion for Hero Father: He Rescued 664 Children."

People

  • Winton, Nicholas, 1909-2015.

Corporate Bodies

  • Commission for the Designation of the Righteous among the Nations

Subjects

  • Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Great Britain.
  • Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Great Britain.
  • England--Emigration and immigration.
  • Righteous Gentiles

Genre

  • Newspaper articles.
  • Registers.
  • Document
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