救出700兒童 英國辛德勒獲捷克最高榮譽

Sir Nicholas Winton, a British man who saved 669 children from the Nazis, was awarded the highest civilian honour in the Czech Republic on Tuesday.
尼古拉斯·溫頓爵士是一位英國人，他曾從納粹手裏救出669名猶太兒童。他在本週二被捷克共和國授予了最高的平民榮譽。

Winton, now 105, was presented with the Order of the White Lion by the Czech president in a special ceremony at Prague Castle.
在布拉格城堡的特殊典禮上，105歲高齡的溫頓被捷克總統頒發了最高榮譽獎章——白獅勳章。

Winton, who has often been nicknamed “the British Schindler”, organised the transportation and settlement of 669 children over nine months before the second world war broke out in September 1939. Most of those he saved were Jewish children living in then-German-occupied Czechoslovakia whose families were later imprisoned or murdered in concentration camps.
溫頓常被人稱爲“英國辛德勒”。在1939年九月爆發的第二次世界大戰之前的九個多月裏，他爲669名猶太兒童安排了運輸工具和棲息之所。他所救的大部分是猶太人的小孩，他們住在被德軍佔領的捷克斯洛伐克。這些孩子的家人之後都在集中營裏被囚禁或被殺害。

Winton gave a speech during the ceremony. He said: “I want to thank you all for this enormous expression of thanks for something which happened to me a heck of a long time ago. I am delighted that so many of the children are still about and are here to thank me.
溫頓在典禮上發表了一番演講。他說：“我想感謝你們所有人，感謝那些發生在我身上的陳舊往事。我很高興能有那麼多的孩子仍舊好好地來這兒感謝我。“

“England was the only country at that time willing to accept unaccompanied minors. I thank the British people for making room to accept them, and of course the enormous help given by so many of the Czechs who were at that time doing what they could to fight the Germans and to try to get the children out.”
“英國在那時候是唯一願意接受孤兒的國家。我很感謝英國人民能夠騰出地方來接納他們，當然，被給予如此大的幫助的捷克人民那時也正不斷努力抵抗德國人，他們也試着救出他們的孩子們。”

In the same ceremony, the Order of the White Lion was also bestowed on Sir Winston Churchill, given in memoriam to his grandson Nicholas Soames. They are the only British citizens to receive the award, after Margaret Thatcher and the Queen. Presenting the award, the Czech President, Milos Zeman said: “It is a great pleasure to confer this award upon two great personalities of the UK. I am only ashamed it has been awarded so late – but better late than never. Congratulations Sir Winton. This is our highest honour; we cannot do one higher.”
在這個典禮上，爲了紀念溫斯頓·丘吉爾，還將白獅勳章授予了丘吉爾並由他的孫子尼庫拉斯·索米斯代領。丘吉爾和溫頓是繼英國前首相撒切爾夫人和英國女王之後唯二位被授予該勳章的英國人。捷克總統米洛什·澤曼在頒獎的時候說：“能將這個獎頒給這兩位英國偉人是多麼榮幸啊。我爲獎章頒發的如此之晚而感到羞愧——但是亡羊補牢。恭喜你，溫頓閣下。這是我們最高的榮譽，沒有比它更高的了。

The ceremony was attended by many of the people that Winton saved, as well as schoolchildren from the Basic School of Sir Nicholas Winton, named after him, in Kunzak, Czech Republic.
在典禮上來了許多溫頓對他們有過救命之恩的人，還有來自在捷克共和國以尼庫拉斯·溫頓爵士命名的小學的學生們。

Winton and his family were flown out on a special plane courtesy of the Czech government so that he could be taken to receive the award and return back the same day for his normal bedtime.
爲了讓他得到正常休息，溫頓和他的家人乘坐捷克政府提供的專機來捷克接受勳章，並在同一天回到英國。