Campaigners are urging the Nobel Prize Committee to bestow its most important award on a British hero of the Holocaust who saved hundreds of children from almost certain death.
A petition to honour Sir Nicholas Winton , now aged 103, with the Nobel Peace Prize was launched earlier this year by pupils at a school in Prague, and has already attracted more than 173,000 signatures.
The schoolchildren have already passed the first hurdle in the process, and registered their nomination of Sir Nicholas – who is widely referred to as the British Schindler - with the Nobel Foundation nominated.
In a statement, pupils at Open Gate Grammar School in Prague expressed hope that not only would their petition attract "as many signatures as possible", but that the campaign would "spread information about the brave Sir Nicholas to a worldwide public".
