
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Composite
- District
- City Of London
- Town
- City
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945): The Holocaust
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 16 September 2003
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 54206
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- Previous locations
- Formerly Piazza outside station. July 2011 on ground floor near entrance to Underground station.
Liverpool Street Railway Station
Bishopsgate
City
City Of London
Greater London
EC2M 7QN
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 332 816
Denomination: Undefined
- Formerly Piazza outside station. July 2011 on ground floor near entrance to Underground station.
- Description
- Glass case representing a suitcase containing objects collected from the Kinder. The case is modelled on a surviving case. The case is fixed to a heavy plinth of Portland stone. A bronze figure of a girl stands on the plinth observing the glass case. Objects contained in the case include toys, books, clothes, family photographs and letters.
- Inscription
- PLAQUE: FUR DAS KIND/ (FOR THE CHILD) BY FLOR KENT/ IN DEEP GRATITUDE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM/ FOR SAVING THE LIVES OF 10 000 CHILDREN WHO FLED TO THIS COUNTRY/ FROM NAZI PERSECUTION ON THE KINDERTRANSPORTS IN 1938-9/ 'WHOSEVER RESCUES A SINGLE SOUL IS CREDITED/ AS THOUGH THEY HAD SAVED THE WHOLE WORLD'/ TALMUD/ DEDICATED BY THE CENTRAL BRITISH FUND FOR WORLD JEWISH RELIEF/ 16 SEPTEMBER 2003/ THE SCULPTURE BEHIND YOU INCLUDES PERSONAL ITEMS CARRIED BY THE CHILDREN WHO/ ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL STREET STATION FROM EUROPE ON THE KINDERTRANSPORTS
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945): The Holocaust
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945): The Holocaust
- Components
- Case
Measurements: depth c 850mm, height c 1800mm, width c 2250mm
Materials: Glass - Trophy / Relic
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Figure
Measurements: height c 1200mm
Materials: Stone - Portland - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined - Plinth
Measurements: depth 800mm, height 630mm, width c 3000mm
Materials: Undefined
- Case
- Condition
- History
- The sculpture was dismantled when it was found that the facilities affecting the environmental conditions of the case were not performing correctly. The artefacts were returned to the Imperial War Museum. May 2011 the figure of the girl was relocated to the ground floor level of Liverpool Street Station and is now part of a new memorial (our ref. 100105). The memorial has been replaced with a bronze sculpture and plaque. (Our ref. 54207 and 57799.)
- Costs
Memorial: c £90 000
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate,private,other
- Reference
- Jewish Chronicle 9 / 24 August 2001
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