Nicholas Winton, a British humanitarian and philanthropist, passed away on July 1, 2015 at the age of 106. Winton was born on May 19, 1909 as Nicholas George Wertheim in Hampstead, United Kingdom. Best known as the “British Schindler”, Winton is credited with saving the lives of 669 children in the Czech Republic in 1939. He created an elaborate system to organize the evacuation of Jewish children from Nazi German-occupied Czechoslovakia ahead of the onset of World War II. He arranged for the children to be brought to homes in Britain until the war was over. Following the war, Winton did not speak of his heroic action, although some of the children’s families were reunited with their rescuers during the Holocaust. Winton was first recognized in 1988 when he appeared on a British television program and was reunited with some of the children he had saved. He was knighted for his services in 2003. His story was made into the film “Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good” in 2002. In 2015, he was presented with the Order of the White Lion, the highest honor in the Czech Republic. Nicholas Winton is survived by his wife, children, and grandchildren. He will be remembered fondly by all of those whose lives he impacted with his selfless act.