19384 Winton (1998 CP1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 6 1998 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet Observatory. It is named after Nicholas Winton – a Briton that organized a rescue mission to save 669 of mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children from their horrific fate in Nazi concentration camps. It is one of the most noticeable rescue mission of Jews from Nazi tyranny.
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