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The Google Doodle on 19 May marks what would have been the
111th birthday of Sir Nicholas Winton, who single-handedly saved 669 Jewish
children from the Holocaust.
Known as "Britain's Schindler", it took 50 years
for the world to recognise the feat of humanitarianism after his wife found
secret documents in the 1980s referencing the daring rescue half a century
earlier.
Five years after his death in 2015, Google marked Sir
Winton's 19 May birthday with a Doodle showing children at a train station to
represent the escape of primarily Jewish children from German-occupied
Czechoslovakia in the lead up to World War II.
"Today, Winton's story serves as a shining example of
the power of selfless action to bring about incredible change," Google
said in a blog post announcing the Doodle.
In an accompanying letter to the blog post, Sir Winton's
daughter, Barbara Winton, said the story only became public via a TV programme,
That's Life!, in 1998 when he was united with some of those children, now in
their 60s, who had not known until then how they had been saved.
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