child evacuees
Displaced young ones
Child evacuees are children relocated from dangerous areas to safer locations during wartime, natural disasters, or other emergencies.
The term most commonly refers to British children sent to the countryside or abroad during World War II to escape bombing raids on cities: My grandmother was one of the child evacuees sent to Wales during the Blitz.
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
- BlitzSwift intensive attack
- air raidsAttacks by military aircraft
- LondonEngland's capital city
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
safe haven · billeting · gas masks · trains · train stations · labels · suitcases · homesick · foster families · separation · mothers · safety · bombing · shelters · rationing · refugees · stations · tearful
- war reliefwar relief, relief funds, relief efforts, relief agencies, relief workers
- Leningrad Siegeblockade, encirclement, Leningrad, starvation, bread rations