This statue is one of the monuments in Prague where fresh flowers are brought at any time of the year. The figure of a man with two children is sometimes mistaken for a monument to a welcoming committee or even for a monument to travelers who missed their trains. But the monument at Prague's Main railway station is about separation and rescue.

The monument on the first platform of the Main railway station in Prague is a tribute of gratitude and respect to Nicholas Winton. Sir Winton, a British broker, and a humanitarian worker was able to arrange the rescue of boys and girls between the ages of two and seventeen from German-occupied Czechoslovakia. He saved 669 Jewish children by transporting them from Czechoslovakia to Britain in 1939, on the eve of World War II. The operation to evacuate children later became known as «Czech Kindertransport». The children were evacuated on 6 trains. Winton was able to negotiate with the Netherlands, where the children made the transit. He also published ads in British Newspapers asking their compatriots to shelter the children.

If Nicholas Winton hadn't helped the children, they would have ended up in concentration camps. Caring Briton even kept a list of evacuated children. He hoped that they would be able to return to their homeland after the war. However, only 80 boys and girls were destined to return home. The relatives of other children died during the war. 

For almost half a century – 49 years – Nicholas did not reveal the secret of his heroic deed. And only in 1988, his wife found a notebook with addresses of homes in Britain where the rescued children lived.

An emotional sculpture of Sir Nicholas Winton with children waiting for a train is placed on the platform at the historical building. The group is based on real people- Sir Winton himself, the granddaughter of one of the rescued children, and a boy who looks like three-year-old Hansi, who arrived on the last train to England, but died three days after the rescue.

Winton was awarded the order of Masaryk in 1998. In 2002 he was knighted by the British queen. And in 2014 he was awarded the highest Czech award – the Order of the White lion. Sir Winton lived for 105 years, and who knows, maybe such a long life was given to him as a reward for the feat he performed.