Auswandererdenkmal, Bronze sculpture at Willy-Brandt-Platz in Bremerhaven, Germany.

The Auswandererdenkmal is a bronze sculpture at Willy-Brandt-Platz in Bremerhaven and depicts a family of four in life-size form. The figures stand on a pink granite pedestal with carved inscriptions and memorial plaques.

The memorial was erected in 1986 and commemorates the millions of Europeans who departed from Bremerhaven's port to start new lives overseas. It marks a significant location where one of history's largest migrations began.

The bronze figures show a family in a moment of departure and reflect the mixed emotions tied to leaving home. Visitors can study the postures and expressions of the four people to understand what emigrants experienced.

The bronze group stands on Willy-Brandt-Platz on the Seebäderkaje in the Neuen Hafen, next to the Deutsches Auswandererhaus. It was moved here in 2008 when a customs fence was built beside its original site near the Pingelturm. The pink granite base carries the inscription DIE AUSWANDERER and four bronze plaques on the back listing initiators and donors.

The bronze figures were cast at the Modern Art Foundry in New York, and the 200,000 US dollars needed came from a fundraising campaign by the German-American Memorial Association. The pink granite base was paid for by Bremerhaven firms. Four bronze plaques on the back of the pedestal list the initiators and donors.