Queen to meet 'Britain's Schindler' in second stage of tour
The monarch will meet Sir Nicholas Winton, 99, as she travels to the 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.
Today the Queen will also meet some of the people he saved by transporting them to the UK from Czechoslovakia.
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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.
Today the Queen will also meet some of the people he saved by transporting them to the UK from Czechoslovakia.