Winton train arrives in London

A vintage train commemorating the “kindertransports” that carried hundreds of Jewish children to safety from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of WWII arrived at London’s Liverpool Street Station at midday Friday. Sir Nicholas Winton, who organized the evacuations as a young stockbroker in Prague 70 years ago, was there to meet the train carrying some of the Holocaust survivors who have become known as “Winton’s children”. Mr Winton, now 100 years old, saved the lives of 669 Jewish children altogether by arranging eight transports out of Prague. He has been much honored for his bravery and a statue of him was unveiled in Prague on Tuesday, before the train set off for the British capital.