Renaming of Shoah garden for Sir Nicholas Winton backed by Barnet Council
Following a proposal by a local Tory politician, the tribute was backed at the annual meeting of the council
Barnet Council has backed a proposal to name the Holocaust garden in Hendon park in honour of Sir Nicholas Winton.
The tribute – nearly a year after his death aged 106 – was backed at the annual meeting of the council last night following a proposal by Tory councillor Dean Cohen.
It followed an approach from the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, which is also planning to unveil a bust or statue to commemorate the hero who helped organise the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia before the Shoah.
Cohen said: “I’m delighted that my motion was unanimously supported. I have requested that council officers work on the detail together with the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and Sir Nicholas’ family.”
Johnson was asked “to consider the idea of naming a London street and/or public place after Sir Nicholas Winton” as part of an initiative identifying physical sites in Europe that gave shelter to victims of Nazism.
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