Frank Meisler, the Israeli architect and sculptor, who has died aged 92, was best known in Britain for his “Children of the Kindertransport” monument on Hope Square, Liverpool Street Station, which commemorates the programme that, from 1938 to 1940, brought 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees out of peril in Hitler’s Europe.
The bronze statue, commissioned by World Jewish Relief and the Association of Jewish Refugees, depicts a group of children between railway tracks, clutching suitcases and teddy bears and gazing with wide-eyed wonder at their surroundings.
Meisler had himself arrived in Britain on one of the transports and, after the statue was unveiled by the Prince of Wales in 2006, he went...