THE TELEGRAPH: The Queen is to meet a man known as "Britain's Schindler" because of his work saving Jews from the Nazis as she continues her tour of the former Yugoslavia.
The monarch will meet Sir Nicholas Winton, 99, as she travels to the Slovakian capital Bratislava.
The Nobel Peace Prize nominee rescued around 670 Jewish Czech children in the run up to the Second World War.
In 1938, Winton, then a young stockbroker, cancelled a skiing holiday to Switzerland and went instead to Czechoslovakia on a friend's recommendation.
There he found camps full of Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi-occupied Sudetenland, and set about trying to help them.
He transported 669 youngsters to Britain before World War II broke out and, without his intervention they would almost certainly have died. >>> By Charlotte Bailey | October 23, 2008
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