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".
The monument was photographed that day by the same photographer
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Click for a larger image On the basis of the monument are the names of the cities from which the children came, and on the back of the monument appears in the center the emblem of the city of Gdansk, and 4 signs in different languages indicating the rescue mission:
Polish - the main sign
English -
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Click for a larger image In the city in the Netherlands from which the shipment to England (Hook of Holland) left, another statue of the same artist was found, also photographed by the same photographer
Another monument is at Liverpool Street Station in London, where trains arrived with the children
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