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发表于 2016-1-17 22:51:29
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Sir Nicholas Winton，a British man who saved 669 children from the Nazis，was awarded the highest civilian honor in the Czech Republic on Tuesday．
Winton，now 105，was presented with the Order of the White Lion by the Czech president in a special ceremony at Prague Castle．
Winton，who has often been nicknamed“the British Schindler”，organized the transportation and settlement of 669 children over nine months before the second world war broke out in September，1939．Most of those he saved were Jewish children living in then-German-occupied Czechoslovakia whose families were later imprisoned or murdered in concentration camps．
Winton gave a speech during the ceremony．He said：“I want to thank you all for this enormous expression of thanks for something that happened to me a long time ago．I am delighted that so many of the children are still about and are here to thank me．England was the only country at that time wining to accept them．I thank the British people for making room to accept them．
In the same ceremony，the Order of the White Lion was also awarded to Sir Winston Churchill，given to his grandson Nicholas Soames．They are the only British citizens to receive the award，after Margaret Thatcher and the Queen．Presenting the award，the Czech President，Milos Zeman said：“I'm happy to give this award to two great personalities of the UK．I am only ashamed it has been awarded so late — but better late than never．Congratulations，Sir Winton．This is our highest honor；we cannot do one higher．”
The ceremony was attended by many of the people that Winton saved，as well as schoolchildren from the Basic School of Sir Nicholas Winton，named after him，in Kunzak，Czech Republic． |
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