Memorial for the Child - Rescue of Jewish and Non-Jewish Children 1938

On March 14, 2008, the sculpture "For the Child" was unveiled in the ticket hall of the Vienna West Station. The monument by sculptor Flor Kent commemorates the 10,000 predominantly Jewish children who in 1938 were transported to England to escape further persecution by the National Socialist regime. The "Children's Transport" originated from the initiative of Jewish organizations and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Great Britain. It received the entry permit for Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland from British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In total, by September 1939 (the beginning of the war), through 43 children's transports, more than 3,200 unaccompanied Jewish children from Vienna were brought to Great Britain, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United States and into Switzerland. Six additional children's transports reached the United States after the war began. At the opening, Sam Morris was also present, that child who stood as a model for the bronze figure and whose great-grandmother Sara Schreiber could be saved through a children's transport.