Millions of British city children were evacuated to safer places during the second world war. Some hated living away from their ... Sheila is a past president of the League of Jewish Women and an energetic organiser at Nightingale House, a Jewish care home in London. Joan Risley lives near Chelmsford. read more
Sure there are. They’re all extremely old by now, it finished 72 years ago, don’t forget, but yes, there are. Evacuees were, by their very nature, children being sent out of London to the country in order to avoid the “Blitz”, as it was called, so the average age of survivors would probably be around 77–87. read more