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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 ...
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]
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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
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.
Evacuees fleeing Hurricane Rita in Texas, United States. This list of mass evacuations includes emergency evacuations of a large number of people in a short period of time. An emergency evacuation is the movement of persons from a dangerous place due to the threat or occurrence of a disastrous event whether from natural or man made causes, or as the result of war
Later, the evacuation of children was by train. Chadwick accompanied the children to the Prague Railroad Station, from where the children, with adult escorts, notably Quaker Tessa Rowntree and Unitarian Martha Sharp, journeyed by rail through Poland or Nazi Germany to seaports on the Baltic Sea or in the Netherlands from where they sailed to ...