Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
As the Netherlands was under attack by German forces from 10 May and bombing had been going on, there was no opportunity to confer with the parents of the children. At the time of this evacuation, these parents knew nothing of the evacuation of their children: according to unnamed sources, some of the parents were initially very upset about ...
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.
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.
Between the Lines of World War II: Twenty-One Remarkable People and Events. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4667-4. Jackson, Carlton (2008). Who Will Take Our Children?: The British Evacuation Program of World War II. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3785-6. Tildesley, Kate. Voices from the Battle of the Atlantic. The Second World War Experience Centre.
He spend most of World War 2 in an underground laboratory in Paris forging passports. He is estimated to have saved the lives of 14,000 French Jews. “I’ll always remember our biggest request ...
Working with the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia headed by Doreen Warriner, Chadwick had the task of selecting children for the kindertransport and organizing their departure. His first operation, 14 March 1939, was a 20-seat airplane evacuation from Prague which he accompanied. Later, the evacuation of children was by train.
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 ...