At Platform 1 at the main train station in Prague - This is a statue of Nicholas Winton who, at the age of 29 in 1939, saved 669 children by finding places for them in Britain. They would have otherwise perished in Nazi concentration camps. The children left Czechoslovakia from this train station, Praha - hlavní nádraží (it was called the Wilson Station back then). There was one last train which was to carry an additional 250 children that never left because the borders were closed on September 1, 1939.
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