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Jan Hunat, Czech glassmaker installs the “Farewell Memorial” at Main Railway Station in Prague, Czech Republic, 23 May 2017. The memorial is a project to honour the memory of all the parents brave enough to have said “good bye” to their children sending them by trains organized by British Sir Nicholas Winton from Prague's Main Railway Station in 1939. Winton saved 669 mostly Jewish children from occupied Czechoslovakia to Great Britain, earning him the nickname the “British Schindler”. The memorial born from an idea of Hug Marom, who lives in Israel and also Zuzana Maresova from the Czech Republic and Lady Milena Grenfell Baines who lives in England, so-called the Winton “children”. The “Farewell Memorial” looks like a copy of the door from the original train with the a glass with small children's hands and adults' hands represent farewell between children and parents on the station platform. Memorial will be unveiled on 27 May 2017, on 75th anniversary of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi protector of Bohemia and Moravia, at Prague's Main Railway Station, close to a statue of Sir Nicholas Winton. (Photo by Martin Divisek/EPA)
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