World War Two child evacuees in Britain

Witness History

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The 1 September 1939 was Kitty Baxter’s ninth birthday, it was also the day her life and millions of other people’s changed with the beginning of World War Two. Kitty was among the hundreds of thousands of children taken out of UK cities and into the countryside, away from the risk of German bombs. She’s been speaking to Laura Jones. (Photo: child evacuees leaving a London train station. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:00.0	This is the sound of crowd signs.
0:02.4	We shoot a laser beam at this atom.
0:05.1	Is that a big canister of oxygen in the background?
0:07.7	Oh, there's a wasp in there.
0:09.3	Yeah, perhaps possibly the most disgusting thing I've heard this way.
0:13.6	But it's one of the nicest fun facts you're going to hear today.
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0:19.2	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:26.5	Thanks for downloading the Witness History podcast
0:29.0	from the BBC World Service.
0:31.3	When War broke out across Europe in September 1939,
0:35.6	over three days hundreds of thousands of children were evacuated
0:39.4	from cities around the UK and sent to live in the countryside.
0:43.5	I've been speaking to Kitty Baxter,
0:45.5	who was taken from London to the rural county of Suffolk
0:48.5	in the east of England.
0:50.0	The children are evacuated from the fear of war
0:52.1	that may be fought over our own city streets.
0:54.6	That danger remains.
0:56.2	And every mother who loves her children
0:58.0	should leave them in the peace of the country.
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