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KLV children from Berlin in Glatz during a geography lesson, October 1940. The evacuation of children in Germany during the World War II was designed to save children in Nazi Germany from the risks associated with the aerial bombing of cities, by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.
In Germany, a network of organisers was established, and these volunteers worked around the clock to make priority lists of those most in peril: teenagers who were in concentration camps or in danger of arrest, Polish children or teenagers threatened with deportation, children in Jewish orphanages, children whose parents were too impoverished ...
Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II, the emergency evacuation of children from British urban areas during the Battle of Britain; Evacuation of population in the Western Soviet Union in the wake of Operation Barbarossa; Evacuation of Finnish Karelia; Finnish war children; Evacuations of civilians in Japan during World War II
The summary table in the West German government statistical office report uses a description giving total "post war losses" of 2.225 million persons, however the detailed analysis in the text lists 169,000 civilian deaths during the flight and evacuation during the war (128,000 pre-war Germany, 35,000 Czechoslovakia and 4,000 Hungary). [113]
Refugees moving westwards in 1945. During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by ...
Mass evacuation, forced displacement, expulsion, and deportation of millions of people took place across most countries involved in World War II. The Second World War caused the movement of the largest number of people in the shortest period of time in history. [ 1 ]
Sister Jean has served as the chaplain at Loyola University Chicago for more than 20 years. Born on Aug. 21, 1919, the beloved nun told PEOPLE on her 103rd birthday that her best secret to a long ...
Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) group bound for New Zealand, 1940. The Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) was a British government sponsored organisation. [1] The CORB evacuated 2,664 British children from England, so that they would escape the imminent threat of German invasion and the risk of enemy bombing in World War II.