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Kappell, a local physician and son of Holocaust survivors, read about Nick
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but today, at age 105, he speaks of
hundreds of children and adults
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They are the now-grown children he
saved through the Czechoslovakia
Kindertransport before World War II.
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Czechoslovakia with a substantial
German population. Many non-
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Jewish families, fled to Prague, fear-
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and Paris to learn banking, but
Winton became a stockbroker
instead, specializing in gold shares.
He was sent to South Africa to estab-
lish an arbitrage partnership.
"He was entrepreneurial, and the
experience in South Africa helped
prepare him for what came later:'
Nick Winton said.
An avid sportsman, Sir Nicholas
was planning a two-week skiing vaca-
tion in Europe soon after the Nazi
takeover of the Sudetenland when a
friend convinced him to visit Prague
instead to see the refugees' situation.
"Father was appalled:' said Nick
Winton. Sir Nicholas quickly decided
to act, aligning with a British-led
refugee organization. "He developed
a master list of hundreds of children's
names and started working on a
mechanism to get the kids out:'
Sir Nicholas gained the British
government's approval to accept the
Jewish children with certain condi-
tions. Each child was required to
have a sponsoring family, 50 British
pounds for resettlement in Europe
after the "emergency" and paid trans-
portation from Prague to Britain.
To recruit British foster families,
Sir Nicholas published the children's
photos in advertisements.
All strata of society responded,
from wealthy people to those of