SIX YEARS AGO, MY Father died.. His heritage remains locked away because of my brother Hugh’s anger. This story of another good soldier from WWII, made me think of my Dad.
In 1907 Sir Winton was born Nickolas Wertheim in Hampstead, London, the son of Jewish parents. Like so many of us, the Wertheims were anxious to pass for white and converted to Christianity, Just before Christmas 1938, he traveled to Prague and single-handedly established an organization to aid children from Jewish families at risk from the Nazis. The House of Commons, shortly after Kristallnacht, had agreed to admit refugee children provide £50 was deposited for a ticket for their eventual return to their country of origin. The last group of 250, scheduled to leave Prague on 1 September 1939, did not reach safety; the Nazis had invaded Poland, marking the start of World War II,[13] and the children later perished in the concentration camps. Given the route from Germany, presumably some of these children ended up in Buchenwald. 
Sir Winton’s heritage. like the heritage of my father, might have been lost forever, because Winton kept quiet about his humanitarian exploits for many years. Again. like the story of Robert Schwartz, a detailed scrapbook was found by his family.
Winton’s scrapbook contained lists of the children, including their parents’ names, and the names and addresses of the families that took them in. By sending letters to these addresses, 80 of “Winton’s children” were found in Britain.[20] [21] Winton appeared on a television show and the host asked whether any in the audience owed their lives to Winton, and, if so, to stand – more than two dozen people surrounding Winton rose and applauded. READMORE in Wikipedia.