The Jewish Historical Society of Ireland pays tribute to Sir Nicholas Winton.

Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE, is a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for them and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. The UK press has dubbed him the "British Schindler".

The Jewish Historical Social of Ireland, in conjunction with the Czech Embassy and Dublin City public libraries, organised a 2 day symposium to highlight his humanitarian achievement in rescuing large numbers of Jewish children from the incoming Nazis.

Yanky Fachler pays fulsome tribute to Sir Nicholas in a comprehensive and passionate recollection recollection of events of early 1939. He recounts events leading up to the Allied powers ceding the Sudenland to the Nazis, in the naive belief that sacrificing the Czech nation would appease Hitler's megalomania. Yanky shares with a packed house the little know fact of De Valera being prepared to jettison Irish neutrality to oppose the expansionist ambitions of Mussolini.

There curently is a campaign underway to seek recognition for Nicholas to be awarded the Nobel Peace prize before he passes into memory... he is 104yo.