Barbara Winton is the daughter of Nicholas Winton. Barbara Winton’s father is regarded as a symbol of humanitarian rescue efforts, and he is a British rescuer. He arranged safe passage from Czechoslovakia for more than 600 Jewish children on the eve of World War II. This operation was later known as the Czech Kindertransport (German for ‘children’s transport’).
Barbara Winton: Bio Summary
| Full Name | Barbara Winton |
| famous as | Nicholas Winton’s daughter |
| Age | 68 years old at the time of her death |
| Date of Birth | October 23, 1953 |
| Place of Birth | Eton, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Date of death | September 20, 2022 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Nationality | English |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Siblings | Nick Winton, Robin Winton |
| Parents | Nicholas Winton, Grete Winton |
Who was Nicholas Winton’s daughter?
Barbara Winton was born on October 23, 1953, in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England. She is the daughter of Nicholas Winton and Grete Winton and the sister of Nick Winton and Robin Winton. She is the only child of the couple.
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Barbara Winton was the biographer for her famous father
Barbara Winton, daughter of the late Sir Nicholas Winton, devoted much of her life to sharing the story of how her father, as a young man aged only 29, helped to organise the transport of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of World War II, thereby saving them from almost certain death in Nazi concentration camps. She has been heralded as a “fearless campaigner in her own right”.
Nicholas Winton’s daughter continued his legacy by contributing to events including by launching the Sir Nicholas Winton website, an online archive chronicling his remarkable life in 2021. As she said in an interview with Radio Prague back in 2018.
“I guess I think that one of the important things about life is that people have a decent standard of living, if possible, and that they’re kind to people around them. I always get distressed when I listen to rhetoric that pits people against each other, because I don’t think anybody gets the best from that situation. It would be nice if the language people used about others was kinder.” Barbara was committed to spreading her father’s message of kindness and hope.
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In 2016, a year after Jewish News successfully championed a Royal Mail stamp to honour her father, Barbara addressed the UN Holocaust Memorial Day in New York. A year later, at the 2017 Limmud festival, she also talked to British Jews about the impact and effect of her father’s heroic work.
Per the Jewish News, in 2019, Barbara Winton took part in a panel discussion to mark the first anniversary of the opening of the Holocaust Education and Learning Centre at the University of Huddersfield, and a year later, together with the son of fellow wartime humanitarian Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld, she opened a new exhibit on the Kindertransport at the Imperial War Museum in London.
Before her passing, Barbara fully supported the British Jewish community’s efforts to house Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion, hailing the “terrific initiative… using the 1939 Kindertransport as a precedent”. Barbara came to Czechia several times, accompanying her father on his trips when he was alive and continuing to visit the country after his father passed away.
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What happened to Nicholas Winton’s daughter?
Barbara Winton died on September 20, 2022, at the age of 68. Her family announced that she had passed away after a long illness. She died at St Michael’s Hospice in Herefordshire with her husband Stephen Watson and children Laurence and Holly beside her bed.
A statement issued by AJR described Barbara Winton as -“a tireless advocate for the plight of modern-day refugees and a fearless campaigner for the oppressed and displaced… While she helped to spread awareness of her father’s endeavours, she was, in her own right, a principled voice of reason unafraid to speak truth to power.“
Her mother Grete Winton died on 28 August 1999 in Slough, Berkshire, England at the age of 79. Barbara’s father also died in his sleep from cardiac arrest on the morning of 1 July 2015 at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough. 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 her brother Robin Winton who died before his sixth birthday.
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