The exhibition entitled Winton Train - Inspiration by Goodness: Child 1939 was prepared by Patricia Ayre and Rosie Potter.

It features 23 photographs of open suitcases with original items that the "Winton children" took with them in 1939 when leaving Prague for London.

There are family photos, children's books, clothing and a prayer book on the photographs.

Each photograph depicts a suitcase of one child supplemented with a text from the conversation between Winton and the authors of the exhibition.

The text also tells a short story on the future of the children's families who remained on the territory of the Nazi Third Reich after their children left.

Many of them did not survive World War Two.

"The exhibition is dedicated to such extraordinary personality as Sir Winton, but it is also dedicated to the parents of the children who had made a great sacrifice by allowing their children to leave and who thus enabled them to live and become parents and grandparents themselves," Potter said at the opening ceremony.

She said the exhibition was on display in the Czech Republic for the second time. In 2003 it had its world premiere in the former Natzi ghetto in Terezin, north Bohemia.

In the past, it was on display in Manchester and Vienna, and museums in the United States and Mexico have shown interest in it.

Shortly before World War Two broke out, Winton organised the transfer of mainly Jewish kids from the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to Britain.

He had to arrange an official permit for their departure, secure their reception by British families and deposit a bail.

Winton managed to have eight trains with children dispatched from pre-war Prague from March 14 to August 2, 1939.

Another train, with 250 kids, was to leave Prague in early September 1939, but the war broke out and the Nazis cancelled the ride.

Most of the kids who were prevented from leaving perished later during the war as did most of the rescued children's families.

The rescued kids have about 5,000 offspring.

Winton, now 100, never drew attention to his deed until a British historian and a Slovak film maker, Matej Minac, did so 20 years ago. Winton was then knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and received high British and Czech decorations.