“Children of the Kindertransport” @ Hope Square, Liverpool Street Station, London ( 2 Views )

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“Children of the Kindertransport” @ Hope Square, Liverpool Street Station, London ( 2 Views )
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Image by Loco Steve
Took this image today while on a city walkabout..
Hope Square is dedicated to the Children of the Kindertransport, who found hope and safety in Britain through the gateway of Liverpool Street Station.
Association of Jewish Refugees, Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, 2006.

On a plaque behind the statues
Children of the Kindertransport
In gratitude to the people of Britain for saving the lives of 10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children who fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939.
"Whosoever rescues a single soul is credited as thought they had saved the whole world." Talmud

To the sides of the statues are 16 bronze blocks carry place-names
Cologne, Hanover, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Bremen, Munich, Danzig, Breslau, Prague, Hamburg, Mannheim, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna

On a plaque attached to the railway track behind the statues Frank Meisler, Arie Ovadia, 2006
The sculptor, Meisler was one of the children saved.

Selective colour used with ipiccy..

I am Eager and Wakeful, Thy Breath comes to me Whispering an Impossible Hope…..
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Image by -Reji
I am eager and wakeful, I am a stranger in a strange land.
Thy breath comes to me whispering an impossible hope.
Thy tongue is known to my heart as its very own.
O Far-to-seek, O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget, that I know not the way, that I have not the winged horse.

-Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Laureate Indian Poet (1861-1941)