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Stamp honouring Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton released
BBC News A man who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust features in a new set of stamps. Sir Nicholas Winton organised eight trains to carry 669 children destined for Nazi concentration camps from Czechoslovakia to London in 1939. Sir Nicholas Winton stamp released today by Royal Mail |
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