50+ Heartwarming Photos Of Children During World War II

#1 A horde of children wearing gas masks carry out a practice evacuation of a school in Kingston, Greater London, after a canister of tear gas was discharged. 1941.

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#2 A group of London children inspect bomb damage outside their front door, 1944.

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#3 Merry Christmas from the yanks

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#4 An elderly woman and several children walk to the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Poland. 1944.

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#5 Jewish children, survivors of Auschwitz, stand with a nurse behind a barbed wire fence. Poland, 1945.

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#6 Mothers and their children step out of the train at Auschwitz concentration camp. Poland.

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#7 A boy retrieves an item from a rubble-strewn street after German bombing raids in the first month of the Blitz in England, 1940.

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#8 A young refugee hangs onto his dog’s leash whilst awaiting wartime evacuation, 1940.

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#9 Some of the first children to be evacuated from London under a new law.

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#10 Child survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp stand near the fence , 1945.

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#11 A porter pushes the luggage of evacuees bound for Wales on a trolley at a London railway station, with a young boy perched on top of the suitcases, 1940.

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#12 Young boys swing from a lamp post in the midst of rubble left by a bombing raid on London during the Blitz, 1940.

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#13 A young “Sergeant Major” inspects some British schoolboys who have been evacuated to Kent at the start of the war, 1939.

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#14 Little evacuee wearing mask and taking a closer look at the eagle, 1941.

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#15 Father Christmas hands out toys and games, including a set of building bricks, to children at a home for evacuees in Henley-on-Thames, England, 1941.

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#16 A woman fits a child with a gas mask at school. England, 1940.

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#17 Safe at least.

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#18 So long soldier, and good luck

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#19 Sugar baby – a refugee

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#20 Theater of rest

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#21 Travels in style

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#22 With the greatest of care

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#23 Yank aids flying bomb victim

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#24 Young Frenchman finds a friend

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#25 Youthful refugees

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#26 A lucky Kharkov civilian

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#27 Aussie wives head for U.S.

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#28 But it’s still home

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#29 Children evacuated from London

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#30 China feeds American warbirds

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#31 Chinese boy helps build airfield

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#32 Famine in India

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#33 Father and son fight together

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#34 Fearful eyes of the innocent

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#35 French children frolic near invasion craft

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#36 Going bye-bye

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#37 Head for Bastille Day Festivities

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#38 Hitch-hiking in the Iceland manner

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#39 London children mobilized for evacuation

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#40 Malta’s children can still smile

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#41 Mascot of the Yanks

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#42 Mother’s little helper

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#43 A little girl holds her doll in the rubble of her bomb-damaged home. England. 1940.

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#44 A Jewish boy raises his hands at gunpoint after Nazi SS soldiers forcibly removed him and other ghetto residents from the bunker, 1943.

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#45 London children wear their gas masks as they skip in the park at their temporary homes on the south coast of England. 1940.

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#46 A young child named Freddie Somer cries upon arriving at King’s Cross Station in London for wartime relocation. 1939.

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#47 Children play on the bomb sites and wrecked tanks in Berlin in the aftermath of the fighting there. 1945.

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#48 A group of child survivors stand behind a barbed wire fence at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in southern Poland, 1945.

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#49 Children perch on a tree near the Brandenburg Gate to watch a U.S. cargo plane arrive during the Berlin Airlift. June 24, 1948.

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#50 Three young evacuees sit on their suitcases ready for their journey away from the danger of the city. England. 1940.

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#51 Children of an eastern suburb of London, who have been made homeless by the random bombs of the Nazi night raiders, 1940.

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#52 A mother and child wear gas masks during a tear gas exercise in Kingston-On-Thames, England, 1941.

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#53 Evacuee children sent away from London greet their parents during a special one-day reunion, 1939.

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#54 Two little girls read a board advertising carrots instead of ice pops, 1941.

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#55 London schoolchildren try on their gas masks, 1941.

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#56 American Supply Sergeant Ralph Gordon kneels in a street to give a piece of gum to a barefoot German girl, 1945.

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#57 An abandoned boy holds a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following a German aerial bombing of London, 1940.

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#58 A homeless boy points out his bedroom to his friends after his home had been wrecked during a random bombing raid in an eastern suburb of London, 1940.

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#59 A little girl waits nervously with her doll and luggage before leaving London for her billet, 1940.

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#60 Children play in a bomb-damaged area of London, 1946.

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