Children of the Kindertransport
In gratitude to the people of Britain for saving the lives of 10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children who fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939

"Whosoever rescues a single soul is credited as though they had saved the whole world" Talmud

Dedicated by
Association of Jewish Refugees
Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief
2006

The monument commemorates the rescue shipments of Jewish children (mostly) from German territories and countries it occupied to Britain. These shipments took place between the years 1938-1939, and about 12,000 children survived. Each child was only allowed to take one suitcase.
Monuments marking the shipments were placed at various stations of the voyage: Gdansk, Berlin, Hook of Holland (from which the children boarded ships sailing to London) and London.

The monuments were made by Frank Meisler, who was also rescued from Gdansk as part of the "Kinder-Transport".

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As can be seen, the monument is surrounded by plaques with the names of the places from which the children came: Cologne, Hanover, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Berman, Gdansk (Danzig), Wroclaw, Prague, Hamburg, Mannheim, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna

At the bottom of the monument is the name of the artist and the year of creation
FRANK MEISLER
ARIE OVADIA
2006
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There is also a sign in the square indicating the name of the square "Hope Square" Click for sign's details

Additional monuments are located near the Gdańsk railway station from which rescue shipments departed Click for sign's details, in Berlin, and in the Hook of Holland in the Netherlands Click for sign's details