Great Western Railway lit up a statue of the man known as the ‘British Schindler’ to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Sir Nicholas Winton’s statue at Maidenhead Station was illuminated by 669 candles to represent each of the children he helped rescue from Prague on the eve of World War Two. Sir Nicholas found homes and arranged the safe passage of the children, most of them Jewish, to the UK. The operation later became known as the Czech Kindertransport. GWR business assurance director Joe Graham said: “The theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day is ‘Be the Light in the Darkness’, so we thought illuminating Sir Nicholas’ statue would be a poignant way of paying respect to a man to whom so many owe their lives.