Trains to Life – Trains to Death () is a 2.25 meter outdoor bronze sculpture by architect and sculptor Frank Meisler, installed outside the Friedrichstraße station at the intersection of Georgenstraße and Friedrichstraße, in Berlin, Germany. It is the second in a series of so far five installations also on display near railway stations in London, Hamburg, Gdańsk and Hook of Holland.
Description The sculpture depicts two groups of children. One group is a pair of children symbolizing those saved by the Kindertransport, which brought 10,000 Jewish children from soon-to-be Nazi-occupied countries in Eastern Europe to safety in the United Kingdom and other countries.Trains to Life – Trains to Death, Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance The other group consists of five children, who represent the 1,600,000 Jewish and non-Jewish children brought by Holocaust trains to the concentration camps and later killed there. Meisler himself was among those saved by the Kindertransport.Train to life/Trains to Death, Friedrichstraße, 6 Million Memorials
History In January 2024 the monument was vandalized, graffiti on the statues of children appearing to show mosques on the body of one child and the suitcase of another.
See also Children in the Holocaust Holocaust trains Kindertransport – The Arrival (2003), London
References
External links
Kindertransport Sculptures at Frank Meisler's official website