Different Reactions To The Policy Of Evacuating Children During The Second World War In 1939 the British government decided to evacuate as many children as possible from inner city areas and more specifically those from industrial cities or those with ports. The policy meant that those evacuated from these areas were sent instead to rural areas. The policy was implemented due to meant reasons, the main of which was the fear of heavy bombing from Germany. This policy of evacuation provoked many different reactions from different people, groups, classes and individuals. Although almost everyone living in the areas being evacuated had direct experience of the evacuation, those most affected were those actually being evacuated. This large amount of people consisted of 827,000 schoolchildren, 524,000 mothers and children under school age, 13,000 expectant mothers, 103,000 teachers and 7,000 handicapped people. Children old enough to attend school were almost always evacuated in their school classes and so were put in the care of a teacher. This meant that teachers often took on the role of parents for all of those children under their supervision. Teachers ended up seeing the reactions of those being evacuated as well as sharing the experience themselves. When the children were sent away to their assigned villages, they were immediately sent from the train station to the nearest large public
The children that didn't go into homes with families went to an orphanage or a church.
You may think that the Constitution is your security - it is nothing but a piece of paper. You may think that the statutes are your security - they are nothing but words in a book. You may think that elaborate mechanism of government is your security - it is nothing at all, unless you have sound and uncorrupted public opinion to give life to your Constitution, to give vitality to your statutes, to make efficient your government machinery. (Brown)
Why the British Government Decided to Evacuate Children from Britain's Major Cities in the Early Years of the Second World War
What were the Japanese internment camps some might ask. The camps were caused by the attack of Pearl Harbor in 1942 by Japan. President Roosevelt signed a form to send all the Japanese into internment camps.(1) All the Japanese living along the coast were moved to other states like California, Idaho, Utah, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Arizona. The camps were located away from Japan and isolated so if a spy tried to communicate, word wouldn't get out. The camps were unfair to the Japanese but the US were trying to be cautious. Many even more than 66% or 2/3 of the Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps in April of 1942 were born in the United States and many had never been to Japan. Their only crime was that they had Japanese ancestors and they were suspected of being spies to their homeland of Japan. Japanese-American World War I veterans that served for the United States were also sent to the internment camps.(2)
A large portion of the people who were eliminated were normally dispatched to one of the twelve concentration camps. Families would be separated, then divided into two groups the healthy and strong men and occasionally
A few months after hurricane Andrew, a survey of 568 children were conducted. There was a high amount of PTSD symptoms. Out of these roughly 170 of these children were described to have severe or very severe levels of PTSD.
Why the British Government Decided to Evacuate Children in the Early Years of the Second World War
We think of Franklin D. Roosevelt as one of our greatest presidents. We see Roosevelt as the president that helped the American people regain faith in themselves, especially at the depth of the great Depression. They say he brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action after asserting this statement, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." But no one looks back to notice Roosevelt to be the president who signed an executive order to condemn, and relocate all Japanese Americans living along the West Coast to internment camps. Roosevelt signed the Japanese Americans off to be personally humiliated and in some cases, to die. During this time of World War II the Japanese Americans were not protected when they were put into the internment camps, and they were left to fight against the racial discrimination that fell upon them that caused all their pain and suffering.
The survivors had no home, clothes, food, and most of all, they lost their loved ones, relatives, and friends. The government helped the survivors, sending the military with relief goods in order for them to live through their hardships. The survivors slept in the Presidio and city parks, like the Golden Gate park, with tents, waited in line for food and clothing that were being distributed by the government and other organizations (National Archives, 2016). The survivors were required to do their cooking in the streets in order to minimize more fires. The administrators of relief goods included San Francisco Red Cross, Relief Corporation, and The United States Army. This earthquake was considered one of the worst natural disasters in United States. The city of San Francisco received helped from people around the country, other cities, states, federal government, and other countries, totaling up to $9 million in relief (“Quick facts about the 1906 earthquake and fires,”
Reasons Leading to the Evacuation of Children from Britain's Major Cities Early in World War Two
In 1942 Roosevelt signed the Executive order 9066 which forced all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast. They were forced out no matter their loyalty or their citizenship. These Japanese-Americans were sent to Internment camps which were located in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. There were ten camps all-together and 120,000 people filled them (2009). The immigrants were deprived of their traditional respect when their children who were American-born were indorsed authority positions within the camps. In 1945 Japanese-American citizens with undisrupted loyalty were allowed to return to the West Coast, but not until 1946 was the last camp closed.
Japanese American Internment Camps History Injustice is the unfair treatment or a situation in which the rights of a person or a group of a people are ignored. The internment of the Japanese American in the United States affected hundreds and thousands of lives for generations. It still remains hidden in history. As, I researched every information for this essay, what I found is, this story is ignored by people, it made me clear that the Japanese were so brave to face all the problems. All the Japanese Americans were treated badly because Americans turned their anger on Japanese Americans for a crime that was committed by the Japanese.
Through selection at the extermination camps, the Nazis forced children to be separated from their relatives which destroyed the basic unit of society, the family. Because children were taken to different barracks or camps, they had to fend for themselves. In the book A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal, the author describes the relief he felt when reunited with his mother after the War.
Jewish children's life changed when the Nazis came on 1933. They were banned from public schools and after 1935 close friends of the children started to avoid the company of their Jewish classmates. Some children would be forced to live in the ghettos with their families, others would end up homeless. The homeless kids parents were either killed or deported to concentration camps. The first group of children to be targeted by the Nazis were the disabled children they were described as “useless eaters”. Some children were also sent to concentration camps where in some cases medical experiments were performed on them or had to slave labor. Josef Mengele was the one who performed
The Holocaust was an astonishing unspeakable atrocity. Adolf Hitler drove a country of Germans who were endeavoring to free "mediocre races". Hitler had a "last arrangement" to deal with anyone who he saw as only average. "The designs incorporated into the Final Solution incorporated the extradition, abuse, and inevitable annihilation of European Jews". (Grobman) His technique was to murder any nuisances. He would utilize inhumane imprisonments and concentration camps. Inside the years 1941-1945 more than eleven million individuals were executed. Six million of the individuals who kicked the bucket were slaughtered essentially in light of the fact that they were Jewish. More than one million youngsters were additionally executed amid the Holocaust.