Statues on first platform of Central Train Station of Prague, Czech Republic. July 5, 2013
Devoted to Sir Nicholas Winton and all sympathizers who provided 8 trains to Great Britain in 1939, thus helping to rescue 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. It is also to commemorate 15,131 Czechoslovak children who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps. Sir Nicholas Winton celebrated his 105th birthday on May 19, 2014, at Czech embassy in London...
Statues on first platform of Central Train Station of Prague, Czech Republic. July 5, 2013
Devoted to Sir Nicholas Winton and all sympathizers who provided 8 trains to Great Britain in 1939, thus helping to rescue 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. It is also to commemorate 15,131 Czechoslovak children who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps. Sir Nicholas Winton celebrated his 105th birthday on May 19, 2014, at Czech embassy in London...