12 October 2006
A new sculpture by a Jewish wartime child refugee was unveiled this week at one of London's busiest train stations. Frank Meisler's sculpture commemorates the "Kindertransport", the 1939 trains that transported Jewish children to safety in London from Nazi-occupied Central and Eastern Europe. Meisler, who now lives in Israel, arrived in London as a child days before the rest of his family was deported to the Warsaw Ghetto. Like most of the Kindertransport refugees, he never saw his parents again. The sculpture was commissioned by World Jewish Relief and the Association of Jewish Refugees. An earlier sculpture on the same site, at the Liverpool Street train station, was removed last year because it contained some World War II artifacts that had started to deteriorate.
