Witness History
Witness History
The child evacuees of World War Two
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November 11, 2022
10 minutes
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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)