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World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations Forced migration of Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians to Germany as forced labour; Forced migration of Jews to Nazi concentration camps in the General Government. Expulsion of Germans after World War II from areas occupied by the Red Army; Evacuation of ...
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.
127th Evacuation Hospital, End of World War II [73] 128th Evacuation Hospital, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 12 January 1946 [ 107 ] 130th Evacuation Hospital, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 5 November 1945 [ 73 ]
During the Second World War these camps were used as schools for evacuated children, run by local education authorities. [2] The first camp to be used in this way was at Kennylands, near Reading. [2] Some modifications were required for this purpose, as the camps had been intended for temporary holiday guests, rather than a semi-permanent ...
March 5 – Finland – During the Winter War, children are being evacuated to neutral Sweden. At Iitala, near Tampere, during a blizzard, an evacuation train on the Helsinki-to-Tornio line collides head-on with a train that overran signals, and catches fire. Of the 21 people dead, 16 were children (including three from one family) and two were ...
The poet George Sutherland Fraser, who served in World War II, wrote a poem, "S.S. City of Benares (drowned refugee children, 1940)", about the sinking. [28] City of Benares is the setting of the book Wish Me Luck by James Heneghan, the story of a boy from Liverpool being sent away to safety on City of Benares.
Southeast Texas has been hit with heavy rains and rising rivers, leading to school closings, high-water rescues and mandatory evacuation orders in some areas. Here's a look at the situation ...
The children were selected by Jewish organisations in Germany and placed in foster homes and orphanages in Sweden. [26] Initially the children came mainly from Germany and Austria (part of the Greater Reich after Anschluss). From 15 March 1939, with the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, transports from Prague were hastily organised.