As part of Railway 200, Lowestoft Railway Station hosts the critically acclaimed Exhibition, A Thousand Kisses, telling the story of the Kindertransport through the experiences of eight children, from January 27.
Between December 1938 and May 1940, almost 10,000 unaccompanied mostly Jewish children were brought to Britain from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland in what became known as the Kindertransport.
Developed as part of the Harwich Haven Surrender & Sanctuary project, the exhibition draws on the Weiner Library collections to tell the story of the Kindertransport through the experiences of eight children and the loved ones they left behind.
It is a story of persecution, migration, of refugees who were made welcome and those who were turned away. Lowestoft railway station welcomed a Kindertransport to the town in December 1938 with over 500 children escaping Nazi persecution in Vienna.
Hosted by the Wherry Lines Community Rail Partnership and the Lowestoft Central Project, the free exhibition opens in the Parcels Office at Lowestoft station at 1pm on Holocaust Memorial Day, Monday 27 January 2025 and runs through until February 8.
For many years Lowestoft Station has hosted the annual Civic Service of Remembrance for Holocaust Memorial Day. In 2023, a permanent interpretation panel retelling the events leading up to the arrival of the Kindertransport in Lowestoft was unveiled on the station concourse.
A THOUSAND KISSES EXHIBITION – PARCELS OFFICE PUBLIC EXHIBITION SPACE
LOWESTOFT RAILWAY STATION – Denmark Rd, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 4EG
Exhibition opening times:
Monday 27th January 1pm – 4pm, Tuesday 28th to Friday 31st January 10.30am to 4pm daily
Saturday 1st February 2pm – 4pm & Monday 3rd February 10.30am – 3pm
Wednesday 5th to Saturday 8th February 10.30am – 3pm daily
Admission is free.