Kindertransport memorial to be unveiled in Essex
Harwich was where many of the fleeing children arrived before WW2
A new memorial marking the Kindertransport will be unveiled in Essex today.
A statue memorialising the 10,000 children who came to Britain on the Kindertransport, between December 1938 and September 1939, in a bid to escape Germany before the Second World War began, will be revealed on Harwich Quayside this afternoon.
Essex artist Ian Wolter is creating the bronze life-size statue, Safe Haven, which he says will evoke the arrival of the children by ship.
The port of Harwich was the main point of entry for most of the 10,000 children who came to Britain.
Nearly 2,000 of these children spent their first weeks at the Dovercourt holiday camp just two miles from the Harwich docks.
There have been several memorials erected in Europe and UK marking Kindertransport, however this will be the first in Harwich, where many arrived by boat from the Hook of Holland.
The statue has been funded through donations, including some from the German government and the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR), who donated £22,500.
A grant was also provided by the Harwich Haven Authority Community Fund, a fund administered by the Essex Community Foundation.