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What is the message of this Poster?

How does the poster get the Message across?

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Learning Objective: To identify the range of experiences by variousIndividuals during evacuation in the Second World War

Learning Outcome: To explain the preparations and implementation Of evacuation and the varied experiences of those evacuated by Considering the successes and failures of evacuation.

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YouTube - Evacuation of children during the World War II

YouTube - Evacuation: Episode 1 (CBBC)

YouTube - Evelyn born 1930 talks about 1939 evacuation of children

YouTube - Memories from World War Two evacuees

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Evacuation

• The British Government believed that the Germans would bomb British towns and cities in order to destroy the morale of the people and force Britain to surrender. Therefore evacuation measures were put in place to protect civilians from bombings and gas attacks. Children were to be protected by being moved from the likeliest targets, the cities to the countryside where it was thought they would be safe.

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Below are a number of articles regarding evacuation that appeared in the Times during

WW11.

Parents' Visits To Children - Times Archive

Evacuation To-Day - Times Archive

Evacuation Of Children - Times Archive

New Evacuation Drive - Times Archive

From The Hop Gardens To Safety - Times Archive

Evacuation Problems - Times Archive

Children Reach Australia - Times Archive

The Evacuee's Return - Times Archive

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Source A – From a government leaflet Evacuation: Why and How? 1938

• The government has made plans for the removal of school children from what are ‘evacuable’ areas to safer places. Householders have offered homes where the children will be most welcome. The children will have their school teachers and helpers with them. The transport of 3 million children is an enormous undertaking. Of course it means heartache to be separated from your children, but you can be sure that they will be looked after.

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Source B Extracts from reports on evacuation made

by women’s Institutes all over England

“The state of the children was such that the school had to be fumigated”

“The children were filthy. We have never seen so many verminous childrenLacking any knowledge of clean habits. They had not a bath for months”.

“One child was suffering from scabies, the majority had it in their hair, and others had dirty septic soars all over their bodies.”

“Some of the children were sent in their ragged little garments. Most of the Children were walking on the ground, their shoes had no soles and justUppers hanging together”.

“Many if the mothers and children were bed wetters”

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Source C – An Interview of Rita Wright, written in 1989. she was evacuated at the age of nine from

the East End of London

• One really good thing about being evacuated to the countryside was the fact that my health improved so much. Although my parents fed me well, I suffered from pneumonia every winter because of the crowded living conditions at home. From the time I was evacuated never suffered it again. The abundance of locally produced fruit and vegetables kept me very healthy.

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Source D – An interview with the actor Michael Caine, who remembers life as an

evacuee

• The woman said, ‘Here’s your meal’ and gave us a tin of pilchards between two of us and some bread and water. Now we’d been in a rich women's house before, so we said: ‘Where’s the butter?’ And we got a sudden wallop round the head. What we later found out was that the women hated kids and was doing it for the extra money. So the meals you could dish up.

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Source E – Beryl Hewiston describes what happened

to her when she was evacuated.

We were told to sit quietly on the floor while villagers and farmers wives came to choose which children they wanted. Eventually onlyMy friend Nancy and myself were left. A large, happy looking middle aged women rushed in asking: ‘Is that all you have left ?’A sad slow Nod of the head from our teacher. Ill take the poor bairn.’ we were led out of the hall and taken to a farm where we spent two years.

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Source F – Ted Cummings, who was evacuated from Manchester to Sandbach in 1939, remembers his

experiences in the 1960’s. • We left feeling sad for our parents and

afraid that they would be killed by bombs. When we arrived in Sandbach we were chosen for a variety of reasons. For the extra income they received for us, to help on the farm or with the housework. A very few were lucky because they lived with families who really cared for them. For those, life was like a holiday and they did not want to leave. I was upset because I was separated from my sister. I was glad when I retuned home for Christmas.

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Task 1. What was the main reason for evacuation ?

2. What can you learn from Source A about the organisation of evacuation?

3. Study sources C – F. What do they suggest about the experiences of the evacuees ? Make a copy of the following grid and complete it. Give a brief explanation for each source

Pleasant Experience

Mixed Unpleasant

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Was evacuation a success ?

Achievements Shortcomings

Working in pairs, make a copy of the scales and organise achievements on the left and shortcomings on the right. Use the evidence from your card sort, The previous sources and your own knowledge.

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Evacuees were not used to rural life and there was a clash between city and country values

Evacuation saved many lives

The organisation was sometimes poor, especially the way in which the evacuees were chosen by their foster parents

Evacuation showed better off people in the countryside the social problems of families living in inner cities and increased the demand for change.

Evacuees often found themselves in much wealthier homes and had to cope with different standards of behaviour

There is evidence that some people tried to avoid taking evacuees

Evacuation meant that some children, from poor inner city areas, saw the countryside for the first time

Some Children found themselves with hosts who actually disliked children.

Many evacuees stayed with better off people and were given a better standard of living, for example better food.

There is evidence that some families avoided sending their children to the country as they could not afford to buy them the correct clothing i.e boots and a warm coat.

Was evacuation a success ?

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Task – Cross referencing for reliability

• Consider the following sources G & H.• Your task is to think about the reliability of

source G by cross referencing with source H. • Once you have completed this you are

required to write an exam style answer to the question;

• ‘Do you think we can rely on the impression Sylvia Collier gives of evacuation?’ Explain your answer using sources G and H.

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Source G – In 1995 Sylvia Collier wrote about her experiences for a local newspaper, which was commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. She was

evacuated from the East End of London to Wiltshire in 1939.

• Our school near to Wormwood Scrubs, had forty classes so took most of the children in the area where we lived. On the morning of September 1st we assembled and made our way to East Acton Station to board the train for our unknown destination. My brother and I thought we were going for a fortnight, so unconcerned, waved goodbye to Mum as the train pulled away taking us to Wiltshire. All the children seemed happy enough to be evacuated.

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Source H – A photograph of children being evacuated, September 1939

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