What happened to french children in the second world war?
It was customary for the children in cities that were of importance enough to be bombed, Like Liverpool, England, where my mom lived, to be evacuated to cities considered outside the danger area, like out in the country. They tried to keep families together but sometimes the families taking them in wouldn’t or couldn’t keep more than one or two. They were transported by buses or trains or whatever transportation was available. They also had the air-raid shelters to go to before the bombing got too heavy. Often they got pulled out of bed, grabbed shoes and went to their shelter while children like my mom were still trying to wake up. Her dad built them bunk beds in the shelter so they wouldn’t have to sleep on the floor. By the time they evacuated, the government knew their cities were about to be pretty much crumbled. They evacuated the children in order that they may grow up and repopulate the cities if most of the adults got killed. I guess there were not enough homes to take in the
