Trains to Life – Trains to Death (German: Züge in das Leben – Züge in den Tod) is a 2.25 meter outdoor bronze sculpture by architect and sculptor Frank Meisler, installed outside the Friedrichstraße station at the intersection of Georgenstraße and Friedrichstraße, in Berlin, Germany.^[1] It is the second in a series of so far five installations also on display near train stations in London, Hamburg, Gdańsk and Hook of Holland.^{[citation needed]}

The sculpture depicts two groups of children. One group is a pair of children symbolizing those saved by the Kindertransport, which brought 10,000 Jewish children from soon-to-be Nazi-occupied countries in Eastern Europe to safety in the United Kingdom and other countries.^[2] The other group consists of five children, who represent the 1,600,000 Jewish and non-Jewish children brought by Holocaust trains to the concentration camps and later killed there. Meisler himself was among those saved by the Kindertransport.^[3]

In January 2023 the monument was vandalized, graffiti on the statues of children appearing to show mosques on the body of one child and the suitcase of another.^[4][5]

• Children in the Holocaust
• Holocaust trains
• Kindertransport – The Arrival (2003), London

• Kindertransport Sculptures Archived 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine at Frank Meisler's official website