(JTA) – A campaign to immortalize on a stamp Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the “British Schindler,” has garnered nearly 84,000 signatures in an online petition. The campaign was launched a week ago by the British jewishnews.co.uk website, and is backed by the Holocaust Educational Trust, the Association of Jewish Refugees and Sir Mick Davis, who chaired David Cameron’s Holocaust Commission, according to the website. The petition has a goal of 150,000 signatures. “He was rightly honored in his lifetime including with a knighthood from the Queen and a statue in his home town,” reads the Change.org petition. “But his name and the lesson that one person can make a difference even in the face of overwhelming evil, must live on.”

The baptized son of Jewish parents, Winton was a 29-year-old stockbroker when he arrived in Prague in December 1938 and organized eight trains that carried children, the vast majority of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia to safety in Britain. Winton’s heroism was unremarked until the 1980s, when his wife found evidence of the rescues. The discovery led to a reunion with some of the children and a documentary. Winton received many honors in his later years, including the knighthood. Last year, the Czech government flew him to Prague in a military plane to receive the country’s highest honor.

All stamp subjects pass through several committees and must be approved by the queen, according to the Royal Mail.