London: Nicholas Winton, a Briton who saved hundreds of Jewish children in Prague from the Nazis in the run-up to World War II, has died at the age of 106, his family said today.

Son-in-law Stephen Watson said his father died peacefully in his sleep at Wexham Hospital in Slough, west of London. Born in London of German-Jewish parents, Winton travelled to Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia -- which split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993 -- as a young employee of the London Stock Exchange.