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Holocaust hero

Rob Cameron, Prague, Czech RepublicOctober 30, 2014

The Czech Republic’s highest state honour has been given to the great and the good for decades, and on Tuesday it was bestowed on a very special person. In 1939 a British stockbroker called Nicholas Winton organized a series of trains across Europe to take Jewish refugee children from Prague to safety. Now, at the age of 105, he’s been honoured at a special ceremony in Prague. Rob Cameron reports.

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