In September 2022 a statue was unveiled at Harwich quayside of 5 figures of refugee children to represent the journey to England and the first taste of freedom of nearly 10,000 Kindertransportees from Europe rescued from Nazi tyranny.
The Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust (HKMLT) raised the funding and commissioned this statue to realise the aim of celebrating the role of Harwich and also nearby Dovercourt in the new and free lives of so many Jewish child refugees.
The mobile exhibition Safe Haven – the Leslie Brent story gives some context to the new memorial by describing Leslie’s journey from Berlin to England, his brief stay in the Dovercourt holiday camp, and his life from childhood in a new and strange place to his adult career as a distinguished immunologist.
The exhibition will be on display at the Library on 20 June, 10am – 5pm. The showing will be followed by an evening talk with Mike Levy, Holocaust educator and author, based on his extensive research about the importance of Dovercourt in acting as the first safe haven for many kindertransportees. Sign up to attend the talk here.
