Jews, children rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton of the Nazi death camps, opened a monument at the main station in Prague to honor the memory of their parents.

Sir Winton is a British philanthropist who organized eight trains to transport 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia through Germany to the UK at the beginning of World War II in 1939. To children brought from the Czech Republic, foster parents were found in the UK. Their real parents in most cases were killed in the Holocaust.

The "Farewell" monument is a copy of the train door of the 1939 model with the palms of the children on one side and the parents on the other. According to the authors, this image most accurately symbolizes a heavy moment of farewell, writes isralike. Org.

Sir Winton (a German Jew whose family immigrated to the United Kingdom) at the end of 1938 was in Prague at the request of his friend who worked there in a Jewish charitable organization. Assessing the situation, the man remained in Czechoslovakia, to provide Jewish children with transportation to the UK. And he worked directly in the lobby of the hotel, where he stopped.

In order to transport the children, he needed arrangements with the Dutch authorities, where the transit took place, and financial guarantees, without which the United Kingdom did not allow entry. The rumor of the "Englishman from Wenceslaska" quickly spread among Prague Jews, who hoped thus to save their children.

Some of them (about 200 people) were sent by plane to Sweden, after which this route was closed. Then Winton returned to England and began to send out advertisements to newspapers asking all not indifferent to accept refugees. Many Britons responded, and Winton solved the money issue on his own and with the help of sponsors. The Briton kept a list of children so that after the war there was an opportunity to return them to their families. Unfortunately, only 80 of them were able to reunite with their parents.

For 49 years, Nicholas Winton kept the secret of saving children. About this amazing story became known only in 1988, when his wife accidentally found the very notebook from 1939 with the addresses of English families who took the rescued children.

Then he was invited to television, and the broad masses learned about his heroic deed. In 1998 he was awarded the Czech Order of Masaryk. In 2002, Queen Elizabeth II dedicated him to the knights.

In 2014, at the age of 105, he was awarded the highest award of the Czech Republic - the Order of the White Lion.

Sir Nicholas died in 2015, and now, decades later, his rescued children (who are already 70-80 years old) were able to perpetuate the heroic deed that was committed not only by Winton himself, but also by their parents, who let their children go to the unknown to save themselves from death.

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