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BNPS.co.uk (01202) 558833<br />
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Pictured: Sculptor Moira Purver working on the life-size statue in 2021. <br />
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A statue of an unsung British hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children destined to die in Nazi concentration camps is due to be unveiled later today (Mon 29/08/22).<br />
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Trevor Chadwick, nicknamed the 'Purbeck Schindler', helped Sir Nicholas Winton rescue 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the Second World War.<br />
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At great personal risk, the Dorset schoolteacher helped forged exit passed to fool the Nazis to help get children to the safety of Britain. <br />
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Trevor died in 1979 and his brave actions were not revealed until the 1990s.

BNPS.co.uk (01202) 558833
Pic: BNPS

Pictured: Sculptor Moira Purver working on the life-size statue in 2021.

A statue of an unsung British hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children destined to die in Nazi concentration camps is due to be unveiled later today (Mon 29/08/22).

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 passed to fool the Nazis to help get children to the safety of Britain.

Trevor died in 1979 and his brave actions were not revealed until the 1990s.