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85 years of the first children's transport from Berlin on Nov. 30, 1938

Bundestag President Bas meets contemporary witnesses of the 1st generation Ruth Schwiening (88) and Kurt Marx (96) as well as 28 British witnesses of the 2nd generation and 8 from Berlin at the Kindertransport monument at Friedrichstrasse train station.

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85 years of the first children's transport from Berlin on Nov. 30, 1938

British Ambassador Jill Gallard also places a rose at the memorial.

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European Monuments of the Kindertransport (Frank Meisler) London-Berlin-Gdansk-Hoek van Holland

The Departure

A bronze sculpture by Frank Meisler, erected in front of the Główny train station (Gdansk, PL).

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Trains to Life – Trains to Death

A 2.25 meter outdoor bronze sculpture by Frank Meisler, installed outside the Friedrichstraße (Berlin, GER).

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Channel Crossing to Life

A bronze sculpture by Frank Meisler, installed on the Koningin Emmaboulevard in the ferry port (Hoek van Holland, NL).

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The Arrival

An outdoor bronze memorial sculpture by Frank Meisler, located in the forecourt of Liverpool Street station (London, UK).

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I plead to help the victims of this catastrophe, which is no natural disaster, no earthquake, no flood, but a catastrophe of an outbreak of inhumanity of man against their fellow human beings.

Lord Baldwin

The British prime minister (1923-1937), addressed the British population in an appeal in 1938

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Nov, 2023

85 years of the first children's transport from Berlin on Nov. 30, 1938

Bundestag President Bas meets contemporary witnesses of the 1st generation Ruth Schwiening (88) and Kurt Marx (96) as well as 28 British witnesses of the 2nd generation and 8 from Berlin at the Kindertransport monument at Friedrichstrasse train station.

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May, 2015

Mayor Olaf Scholz inaugurated “The Last Farewell” in Hamburg

The Last Farewell is the title of a bronze sculpture by the sculptor Frank Meisler on Dag-Hammarskjöld-Platz in front of the south exit of Hamburg Dammtor train station.

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Aug, 2009

Inauguration of the information boards "TRAINS TO LIFE; TRAINS TO DEATH" with Frank Meisler in Berlin

Inauguration of the information boards "TRAINS TO LIFE; TRAINS TO DEATH - ZÜGE IN DAS LEBEN; ZÜGE IN DEN TOD" on the wall of Berlin Friedrichstrasse train station on August 31, 2009.

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Jul, 2007

Contemporary witnesses and guests visiting the German Bundestag in 2007

The Kindertransport Organization Deutschland e.V. and its cooperation partners welcome contemporary witnesses and guests.

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The Long Journey

Small feet on the cold
Pavement, once, on the way
into the unknown
into the foreign
into a no-man’s land

Small hands torn from the hands
Of their mothers, their fathers
Dragged into nothing
Clasping a little suitcase
Holding another small hand

Little people following the big ones
Unsuspecting for all that
Into the unknown
Into the indescribable

April 2012 © Christine Kahlau

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