Children of the Kindertransport - Liverpool Street Station - London, UK.
N 51° 31.038 W 000° 04.994
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Children of the Kindertransport - A lifesize bronze sculpture of a group of refugee children, located at Liverpool Street Railway Station, London, UK.
Waymark Code: WMF3VT
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/19/2012
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A thought provoking sculpture in amazing detail, outside the station that the children arrived at in Great Brtain, all those years ago. The Kindertransport is the name given to the rescue mission that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The people of Great Britain took in nearly 10,000 children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Danzig.
The names of the Citys surround the sculpture.
"The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, and farms. Most of the rescued children survived the war. A small number were reunited with parents who had either spent the war in hiding or survived the Nazi camps, but the majority, after the war, found their parents had been killed.
World Jewish Relief (then called 'The Central British Fund for German Jewry') was established in 1933 as a direct result and to support in whatever way possible the needs of Jews both in Germany and Austria. Records for every child who arrived in the UK through the Kindertransports are maintained by World Jewish Relief". Text Source:
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