Hansi Neumann flight

Hansi Neumann flight

Nicholas Winton and Hansi on the apron, Václav Havel Airport, Prague (January 1939)
Date	January 1939
Venue	Prague–Ruzyně Airport, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Location	Prague
Also known as	Czech kindertransport
Organised by	Barbican Mission to Jewish People British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia
Filmed by	Universal News
Outcome	Landed at Croydon, England (12 January 1939)

The Hansi Neumann flight was the first flight to evacuate refugee children from Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Croydon, England, in January 1939, in the lead up to the Second World War. 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). Around 18 Jewish children were on the flight.

News of the flight was covered by journalists and photographers at the time. A two and a half minute film was taken of the departure by Julius Jonak of Universal News. 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.