Part of the Czech kindertransport, it was completed in a Dutch Douglas aircraft of KLM, and organised by the Barbican Mission to Jewish People and the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia (BCRC).

Images of the BCRC's Nicholas Winton and the child Hansi at the airport, inspired a memorial later placed at the main railway station, Prague.

[1][3] Key members were Reverends Isaac Emmanuel Davidson, the Barbican Mission's director, his wife Lucy, and William Edward Wallner, the representative in Prague.

[5] In December 1938, Marie Schmolka, Hannah Steiner and Martin Blake, asked him to hold off his skiing holiday in the Alps and visit Prague instead.

[5] The message he received began "600 children in Prague and elsewhere in Czechoslovakia urgently require emigration to England.

[5] Winton remained there for around three weeks, helping with others, to organise the evacuation of mostly Jewish children refugees to England.

[6] On 9 January 1939, Davidson had given a press release from Hatton House, Lubbock Road, the residence of F. E. Fehr, regarding growing anti-semitism and need to evacuate at risk children in Prague.

Being the first lot of kids to leave Czechoslovakia it aroused much attention and cinema men and journalists were very much in evidence".

[1] The cameraman noted "today on the aerodrome of Ruzyn nearly 30 children of refugees took leave of their parents.

[15][16] An account in the Prism : An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators says that his father found his way to England to look for the boy, while the rest of his family will killed.

[3] The artist Flor Kent, based a memorial at the main railway station, Prague, on an image of Winton and Hansi taken just prior to the departure.