This mural was created in 2024 for the opening of the new Nicholas Winton Avenue.

Located near the former Bubny railway station, from which people were transported to the Terezín concentration camp during the Second World War, it honors the British humanitarian who helped save 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the war.

The artwork combines a striking portrait of Sir Nicholas Winton with symbols, texts and quotations telling his story and highlighting his values. On the wall opposite the hero’s portrait, three worried children based on old photographs are shown in front of Prague Main Railway Station, from which the “Winton trains” departed for Great Britain. Their farewells to their families appear next to the figure of a happy father with the face of young Nicholas Winton, holding a contemporary child. The composition is completed by a ring engraved with the Talmudic quotation “Save one life, save the world,” given to Winton by the rescued children in 1988, as well as an English tea set and a teddy bear symbolizing the new life of those who escaped.

The mural uses bright warning colors, intentionally breaking with the traditional black-and-white or sepia aesthetics associated with Holocaust imagery. These unsettling colors alert passersby to the contemporary relevance of its theme and remind viewers that today’s crimes against humanity show we have not fully learned the lessons of the past.