Robin Winton: Who is Nicholas Wintons son?

Robin Winton was the son of Nicholas Winton. Robin Winton’s father was a British humanitarian who is known for rescuing Jewish children who were at risk of being murdered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. This operation which was later known as the Czech Kindertransport rescued 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II.

Robin Winton: Bio Summary

Who is Nicholas Winton’s son?

Robin Winton was born on 14 August 1956 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. He was the son of  Nicholas Winton and his wife Grete Winton and the brother of Barbara Winton and Nick Winton. Robin was the youngest child of the couple. According to reports, Nicholas Winton’s son had Down’s syndrome.

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At that time, children with Down’s Syndrome were usually placed in homes, but the Wintons insisted Robin should stay with them.

Robin Winton died before his sixth birthday

Nicholas Winton’s youngest son contracted meningitis and died the day before his sixth birthday. When Robin died suddenly of meningitis, his elder sister Barbara recalls that little was said – she sees her father as a reticent man who embodies his own parents’ Victorian attitudes.

But she believes Robin’s death affected him deeply, and Winton has remained active in the charity Mencap for the past 50 years per The Guardian. Winton got involved because of his late son’s learning disability, and that, he says, has been the way his life has tended to run. “I respond very easily to outside events. One’s life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you’ve arranged for yourself works out.”

Robin Winton’s mother is credited for discovering his father’s scrapbook

When Grete Winton came across a scrapbook in her attic that belonged to her husband 50 years before, she was stunned at what she found. The “Czech Kindertransport” story remained untold for 50 years until she gave the old scrapbook with photographs and the names of the escapees to Elisabeth Maxwell, a Holocaust researcher and wife of newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell. He arranged for his newspaper to publish articles on Winton’s incredible rescue of 669 children.

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BBC Television picked up the story of Nicholas Winton and began searching for the children who had been rescued. Winton and a studio audience full of these children, now adults, appeared together on Esther Rantzen’s BBC television program, That’s Life.

The British press heaped praises on Robin Winton’s father and dubbed him the “British Schindler”. In 2003, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for “services to humanity, in saving Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia”.

 On 28 October 2014, Winton was awarded the highest honor of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion (1st class), by Czech President Miloš Zeman. A statue of Winton stands on Platform 1 of the Praha hlavní nádraží railway station, the largest railway station in Czech Republic. It was unveiled on 1 September 2009 as part of a larger commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the last Kindertransport train.

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Robin’s mother died on 28 August 1999 in Slough, Berkshire, England. His father also died in his sleep from cardiac arrest on the morning of 1 July 2015 at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough. He was admitted a week earlier following a deterioration in his health. He was 106 years old at the time of his death. Nicolas Winton was cremated and his ashes were buried at Braywick Cemetery in Maidenhead, Berkshire alongside his wife Grete, and Robin.

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