A HEREFORDSHIRE woman who dedicated her life to helping refugees to carry on her father's legacy has died after a long illness.
Barbara Winton, from Pembridge, near Leominster died at the age of 68, her family said.
She was the daughter of Sir Nicholas Winton, a hero of the Holocaust who in 1938 oversaw the Czech Kindertransport, which brought Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in the UK.
BBC programme That's Life famously reunited him with just a few of the many hundreds of people he had rescued in February 1988.
Ms Winton devoted a large part of her life to her father whom she accompanied on his trips abroad before his death in 2015 at the age of 106.
She was a campaigner on the plight of refugees and worked hard to further humanitarian action in the tradition of her famous father.
Ms Winton actively attended events in remembrance of her father's heroic act, and helped him maintain contact with the "Winton children."
She visited the Czech Republic several times and wrote a book, which was translated into Czech, describing her father's life story.
Safe Passage UK, who support safe routes to sanctuary for refugees in the UK, said Ms Winton's death, on Tuesday, September 20, left them "heartbroken". It said: "Barbara Winton was one of our most brilliant campaigners, working tirelessly in support of Safe Passage. "We are heartbroken by the news."
Hereford Times, By Michael Eden, 26th September 2022
A HEREFORDSHIRE woman who dedicated her life to helping refugees to carry on her father's legacy has died after a long illness.
Barbara Winton, from Pembridge, near Leominster died at the age of 68, her family said.
She was the daughter of Sir Nicholas Winton, a hero of the Holocaust who in 1938 oversaw the Czech Kindertransport, which brought Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in the UK.
BBC programme That's Life famously reunited him with just a few of the many hundreds of people he had rescued in February 1988.
Ms Winton devoted a large part of her life to her father whom she accompanied on his trips abroad before his death in 2015 at the age of 106.
She was a campaigner on the plight of refugees and worked hard to further humanitarian action in the tradition of her famous father.
Ms Winton actively attended events in remembrance of her father's heroic act, and helped him maintain contact with the "Winton children."
She visited the Czech Republic several times and wrote a book, which was translated into Czech, describing her father's life story.
Safe Passage UK, who support safe routes to sanctuary for refugees in the UK, said Ms Winton's death, on Tuesday, September 20, left them "heartbroken". It said: "Barbara Winton was one of our most brilliant campaigners, working tirelessly in support of Safe Passage. "We are heartbroken by the news."
Hereford Times, By Michael Eden, 26th September 2022
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