The Kindertransport Memorial “Safe Haven” was unveiled on the Harwich Quayside on Thursday 1 September 2022.
Designed by Essex based artist Ian Wolter, this bronze life-size statue depicts five children arriving in Harwich just before the outbreak of the second world war.
The port of Harwich was the main point of entry for most of the 10,000 children who came to Britain on the Kindertransport, from December 1938 to the outbreak of war in September 1939. Nearly 2,000 children spent their first weeks at the Dovercourt holiday camp just two miles from the Harwich docks.
In addition to the memorial, an audio bench and information boards have been installed around Harwich.
To learn more visit https://kindertransport-memorial.org/