More than 20 Holocaust survivors are completing a train journey across Europe to mark the 70th anniversary of their rescue by a young British stockbroker, AP reported.
The vintage steam train is arriving in London after a three-day journey from Prague. Aboard are two dozen veterans of the 1939 "kindertransports" that carried hundreds of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
They evacuations were organized by Nicholas Winton, who is now 100. He was meeting the train Friday at London's Liverpool Street Station.
Winton arranged eight trains to carry 669 children to Britain in the months before World War II.
He has been honored in the Czech Republic, where a statue of him was unveiled in Prague before the train left on Tuesday.
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