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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.
1939 to 1940: The first evacuation of Finnish Karelia was the resettlement of the population of Finnish Karelia and other territories ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union after and during the Winter War into the remaining parts of Finland. Some of the territories were evacuated during the war or before it, as part of the course of the war.
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 .
The Evacuees, a 1975 BBC Play for Today by Jack Rosenthal This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 11:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The National Archives: Evacuation to Canada [21] BBC MEMORIES OF A C.O.R.B. (CHILDREN'S OVERSEAS RECEPTION BOARD) EVACUEE 1940 - 1944: [22] IWM THE STORY OF CHILD EVACUEE BERYL MYATT AND THE SINKING OF THE SS CITY OF BENARES: [23] Keep Calm and Carry On?: Examining WWII Great Britain through the Lens of Overseas Evacuation: [24]
The discovery of a large World War II-era bomb buried at a Florida regional airport prompted an evacuation that extended half a mile in every direction, according to investigators.. A construction ...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on April 6 that more than 1,000 people who had fled the Ukrainian city of Mariupol had safely reached Zaporizhzhia.An ICRC team had tried ...
In early June 1940, about 13,500 evacuees were shipped to Casablanca in French Morocco.From there they were accommodated as follows:- 6,000- Casablanca / 2,500- Rabat / 840- Fez / 590- Mogador / 590- Saffi / 500- Marrakesh / 420- Meknes / 350- Andre Del-Pit / 320- Mazagan / 300- Azemmour after the capitulation of the French to the Germans in June 1940, the new pro-German French Vichy ...