Frank Meisler was born into a
Jewish family in Danzig (now
Gdańsk, Poland), he was evacuated by the
Kindertransport in August 1939, travelling with other Jewish children via Berlin to the Netherlands and then to
Liverpool Street station in London. His parents were later murdered at
Auschwitz concentration camp. He was raised by an aunt, who lived in London. He attended school in Harrow, and then did national service in the
Royal Air Force. He studied architecture at the
University of Manchester, and was involved in the construction of the
Heathrow Airport. He moved to Israel in the late 1950s, where he later opened a workshop and gallery in the
Old City of
Jaffa. he also erected public sculptures including a memorial to
Ben Gurion in Israel,
Eternal Kiev in Kiev, and a series of Kindertransport memorials:
Kindertransport – The Arrival erected at
Liverpool Street station in London in 2006,
Trains to Life – Trains to Death erected at
Friedrichstraße station in Berlin in 2008,
The Departure erected at
Gdańsk Główny station in 2009,
Crossing to Life erected at the
Hook of Holland in 2011 and
The final parting erected at
Hamburg Dammtor station. He also designed the interior of the
Holocaust Memorial Synagogue in Moscow, and sculptures for Russia's National War Memorial. A memorial of the death march of Jewish prisoners (and subsequent murders at
Palmnicken) was erected in
Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) in 2011. He published an autobiography.
On the Vistula Facing East, in 1996. ==Architecture and art in general==