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What is the situation with the British Schindler, who used 8 trains to save 669 Jewish children, and the asteroid was named after him?

This man’s name is Nicholas Winton, a British man of Jewish descent. When Germany was about to invade the Czech capital Prague, Nicholas Winton risked his life and used eight trains to transport Prague. 669 Jewish children were brought out of Prague, the Czech capital, away from the war in Germany. Later, Nicholas Winton was knighted by the Queen of England, and the President of the Czech Republic personally awarded the Czech Republic the highest honor. Later, the Czech Republic indeed named an asteroid swimming in space it discovered after Nicholas Winton. .

The prime ministers of Britain, France, Germany and Italy held a meeting in Munich to appraise the "Munich Agreement" and decided to cede the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany. At that time, British Prime Minister Chamberlain returned to the country happily and told the people that he Bring peace back to Britain. However, Nicholas Winton didn’t think so. He knew clearly what Germany was going to do. Therefore, Nicholas Winton was more sympathetic to Czechoslovakia, which was invaded by the war. He proactively canceled his plan to go to Switzerland for vacation and went to the war-torn Czechoslovakia. The sprawling Czech capital Prague.

At that time, the German army had occupied the Sudetenland, so many Jews who had wandered because of the war gathered in Prague, the Czech capital. Nicholas Winton went to Prague and saw that many Jewish parents were worried about the fate of their children. , so Nicholas Winton was deeply touched at the time, and set up an office specifically to rescue these children in need, and tried to lobby the governments of various countries to accept these children in need. But at that time, no country was willing to accept these children in distress. In the end, only the British government agreed, but required that the children must find a family willing to adopt them in the UK before the government would issue a certification.

In the end, Nicholas Winton did find an adoptive family after vigorous publicity in the UK, but the government verification was delayed (mainly because Germany had entered Prague at that time), so Nicholas Winton had no choice but to forge. Identification and immigration documents are required to allow children to enter the UK. It can be said that Nicholas Winton paid a great price for this incident, both materially and personally. From this aspect, Nicholas Winton is indeed a great hero.