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  2. Children's Overseas Reception Board - Wikipedia

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    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. This was during a critical period in British history, between July and ...

  3. SS City of Benares - Wikipedia

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    DEMS (wartime) SS City of Benares was a British steam turbine ocean liner, built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. [1] During the Second World War, City of Benares was used as an evacuee ship to transport 90 children from Britain to Canada. German submarine U-48 sank her by torpedoes in September 1940 with the loss ...

  4. Sinking of the SS City of Benares - Wikipedia

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    Maritime disaster. Cause. Torpedo. Deaths. 258. The SS City of Benares, a British steam passenger ship, sank on 17 September 1940. [1] The ship was en route to Montreal, Canada, then to Quebec City, and later to New York City. [1] She was carrying 406 people—209 crew, 6 convoy representatives, and 191 passengers, of whom 100 were children ...

  5. Kindertransport - Wikipedia

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    Kindertransport. For the play by Diane Samuels, see Kindertransport (play). The Kindertransport (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi -controlled territory that took place in 1938–1939 during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

  6. Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II

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    The UK Ministry of Health advertised the evacuation programme through posters, among other means. The poster depicted here was used in the London Underground.. The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to defend individuals, especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.

  7. Home front during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Some children were sent to Canada, the US and Australia, and millions of children and some mothers were evacuated from London and other major cities to safer parts of the country when the war began, under government plans for the evacuation of civilians, but they often filtered back. When the Blitz bombing began on September 6, 1940, they ...

  8. List of World War II evacuations - Wikipedia

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    Evacuation from Crimea during the Crimea Campaign. Evacuations during the Siege of Leningrad. Operation Ke, Japanese evacuation from Guadalcanal, Jan-Feb 1943. Japanese evacuation from Kiska, July 1943. Allied invasion of Sicily, Axis evacuation order to the Royal Italian Army over the Strait of Messina to Italy, 1943.

  9. World War II evacuation and expulsion - Wikipedia

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    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] A number of these phenomena were categorised as violations of fundamental human ...