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A statue of an unsung British hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children destined to die in Nazi concentration camps has been unveiled.
Trevor Chadwick, nicknamed the 'Purbeck Schindler', helped Sir Nicholas Winton rescue 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the Second World War.
At great personal risk, the Dorset schoolteacher helped forged exit passes to fool the Nazis and help get children to the safety of Britain.
He travelled back and forth between England and Prague in 1939 to supervise the movement of hundreds of children by train and aircraft.
Trevor died in 1979 and his brave actions were not revealed until the 1990s.
Pic: CorinMesser/BNPS
A statue of an unsung British hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children destined to die in Nazi concentration camps has been unveiled.
Trevor Chadwick, nicknamed the 'Purbeck Schindler', helped Sir Nicholas Winton rescue 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the Second World War.
At great personal risk, the Dorset schoolteacher helped forged exit passes to fool the Nazis and help get children to the safety of Britain.
He travelled back and forth between England and Prague in 1939 to supervise the movement of hundreds of children by train and aircraft.
Trevor died in 1979 and his brave actions were not revealed until the 1990s.
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