‘BRITISH SCHINDLER’ HONORED BY ROYAL MAIL COMMEMORATIVE STAMP:

The British Royal Mail postal service has issued a stamp honoring Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 Jewish children from Europe in 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Winton arranged for eight trains carrying the children to travel from Prague to the UK, utilizing Britain’s Kindertransport program allowing for refugees under 17 from the continent to gain asylum if they had a hosting family. Winton bribed Nazi officials, arranged for forged travel documents and found families to take the children in and pay a £50 deposit for their eventual return travel fees. The families of most of the children rescued were murdered during the Holocaust. Winton, who died last year aged 106, is one of six humanitarians honored in the Royal Mail’s presentation pack issued on Tues. 15 March 2016. (J. Post)