Poster campaign to convince reluctant parents to send their children away during Operation Pied Piper, 1939.

Poster campaign to convince reluctant parents to send their children away during Operation Pied Piper, 1939. 

Excerpted from Labelled with love - what really happened to the evacuee kids in World War Two at http://dexpr.es/1sbvp1w

"Next it was the lottery of where they would be staying and James says: "The last thing my father said before we left London was, 'Don't let them separate you' but no one was willing to take all three of us. My sister was in floods of tears as my brother was marched away."

"Anna Freud, the daughter of Sigmund, later carried out a study of the psychological effects and concluded: 'Separation from their parents was a worse shock for some children than a bombing.'"


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