Statue for the Purbeck Schindler: Unsung British hero who helped save hundreds of children destined for Nazi concentration camps will be honoured in bronze
An unsung British hero who helped save hundreds of children destined to die in Nazi concentration camps will be honoured with a life-size statue in his hometown. Trevor Chadwick, known as the 'Purbeck Schindler', helped Sir Nicholas Winton rescue 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia as the country came under the grip of Nazi occupation in the months before World War Two. At great personal risk, the schoolteacher negotiated with the Gestapo to agree exit passes for children, one of whom went on to become a poet whose work has been praised by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. The hero’s involvement in the operation, known as the Czech 'kindertransport', was not uncovered until more than 50 years after the war. Trevor Chadwick, known as the 'Purbeck Schindler', helped Sir Nicholas Winton rescue 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia. He is pictured as a young man Chadwick, who died in 1979, travelled back and forth between England and Prague in 1939 to super