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Trains to Life, Trains to Death

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A new memorial dedicated to the 10,000 Jewish children spirited out of Nazi Germany to Britain 70 years ago will be unveiled in Berlin.

Designed by artist and eyewitness Frank Meisler, the sculpture depicts children about to board a train as part of the “Kindertransport,” which is how Meisler himself survived. Many of those children never saw their parents again.

The memorial, schedule to be unveiled on Nov. 30, will stand outside Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse train station, from which the first emergency transports of Jewish children from Germany and Austria took off for England on Dec. 1, 1938, less than a month after the Kristallnacht pogrom of Nov. 9, 1938. The transports stopped with the outbreak of World War II in September 1939.

Meisler’s new sculpture has a counterpart outside Liverpool Street Station, which is where he arrived at the end of August 1939 with 14 other children from his home city of Danzig, today Gdansk, Poland.

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Mob Rule says:

Where is this?

30th Jun 2009, 20:49

JUDOJULE'S BIG ART BLOG says:

I added the location and some info.

It is the same artist who did the piece at Liverpool Street Station in London. You took a picture of it.

30th Jun 2009, 21:17

Mob Rule says:

That's what I was wondering - what the connection was. Thanks for all the info. I love companion pieces.

22nd Jul 2009, 23:32

JUDOJULE'S BIG ART BLOG says:

Yes- me too. Now my two favourite cities have something in common.

23rd Jul 2009, 10:39