Twice a Refugee: The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain during Evacuation, 1939-1943

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Abstract

" Pied Piper Tomorrow." 1 Those fateful words relayed over the British wireless on the afternoon of Thursday, 31 August 1939, heralded the evacuation of 1,473,000 mothers, schoolchildren, teachers, blind persons, and cripples from the vulnerable areas of Britain. 2 Enemy bombs constituted a major threat in Britain for the first time since World War I when, during one raid in 1918, German planes dropped three tons of bombs on Britain. 3 During the 1920s and 1930s miscalculations as to the numbers of German airplanes
Original languageHebrew
Pages (from-to)175-184
JournalJewish Social Studies: history, culture and society
Volume45
Issue number2
StatePublished - 1983

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