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Pictured: Walter Kohn received these after arriving in the UK
The Nobel Prize awarded to a physicist who was saved by Britain from the Nazis through the Kindertransport programme has been sold by his family for £340,000. ($457,000)
Walter Kohn, who came from a Jewish family, was 15 years old when his native Austria was annexed by Adolf Hitler in 1938.
He and his sister Minna escaped the country through the programme, which provided almost 10,000 children with safe passage to the UK, but their parents were killed during the Holocaust.
Kohn was subsequently transported to Canada where he studied before enrolling at Harvard University and embarking on an academic career.
Pic: NateDSanders/BNPS
Pictured: Walter Kohn received these after arriving in the UK
The Nobel Prize awarded to a physicist who was saved by Britain from the Nazis through the Kindertransport programme has been sold by his family for £340,000. ($457,000)
Walter Kohn, who came from a Jewish family, was 15 years old when his native Austria was annexed by Adolf Hitler in 1938.
He and his sister Minna escaped the country through the programme, which provided almost 10,000 children with safe passage to the UK, but their parents were killed during the Holocaust.
Kohn was subsequently transported to Canada where he studied before enrolling at Harvard University and embarking on an academic career.
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