"I didn't know where or why I was going. I didn't know there was a place called England. I waved to my brothers out of the window when the train left the station," she said.
This week, 92-year-old Alexandra Greensted her married name returned to Prague to honour the man who organised the rescue of hundreds of Jewish children, including her, from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939 on the Kindertransport.
A new street in the Czech capital has been named after Nicholas Winton, who relentlessly cajoled and shamed immigration authorities to provide visas for 669 children, sparing them the horrors of the Holocaust.
Greensted's father and brothers were later murdered in Auschwitz.
Jan Čižinský, the mayor of the Prague district through which the street runs, spoke of Winton's "heroism, courage and humility". When complete, the street will pass by the railway station and memorials to "the dark side of world history".
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