Prague names street after British Holocaust hero Nicholas Winton

Sir Nicholas helped save hundreds of mostly Jewish children from the Nazis in 1939.

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Four of them – now in their 80s and 90s – attended the ceremony for the street, which runs past a small train station from where tens of thousands of Czechoslovak Jews were deported during the Holocaust.

It coincided with the 85th anniversary of the last planned Kindertransport journey from Prague, which was prevented from departing due to the outbreak of World War Two.

“This was my passport to freedom,” said Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines, clutching a document the size of a birthday card.

The card, slightly yellowed with age, showed that Milena Fleischmann (her maiden name), aged nine, was granted leave by His Majesty’s Government to enter the United Kingdom.

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