Children's Overseas Reception Board

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British children brought to New Zealand under the Children's Overseas Reception Board in 1940

Children's Overseas Reception Board was a British government initiated program to evacuate British children during World War II .

meaning

When the Air Force began bombing Britain in 1940, the government created the Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) program . The children were to be sent to the United States , Canada , Australia , New Zealand, and South Africa . Over 210,000 children were enrolled in this program in the first few months.

On September 18, 1940, the British liner City of Benares was sunk by a German torpedo and 77 children were killed. The CORB program has stopped. To date, 2,664 British children have been evacuated. Most of them were brought to Canada.

However, wealthy parents continued to have their children evacuated to safe countries. It is believed that approximately 14,000 children were brought to the United States, Canada, and Australia via private routes in the first two years of the war.

literature

• Jessica Mann : Out of Harm's Way, the story of the overseas evacuation of children during World War 2 . London: Headline, 2005
• Mike Brown: Evacuees: Evacuation in Wartime Britain 1939-1945 . Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Pub., 2000
• John Welshman: Churchill's children: the evacuee experience in wartime Britain . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010

Web links

• http://spartacus-educational.com/2WWreceptionB.htm
• http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Children%27s_Overseas_Reception_Board
• http://www.ssnerissa.com/?q=evacuation

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Children's Overseas Reception Board
2. ↑ Different sources speak of "70" ( [1] ), "73", or "77" ( archive link ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ); all agree that there were a total of 90 children on board. 
3. ↑ Jessica Mann is the daughter of the German refugee Frederick Alexander Mann