What was life like for evacuees in World War 2?

Answer 1

Life for the Evacuees in World War 2 would have been unimaginable, they would have to go and live with strangers miles away from there homes, leaving the families behind. Some would have to be split up from their Brothers and Sisters, because the people they had to go and stay with did not want more than 1 child to look after. Most of the children weren't evacuated until the last year of the war, so they did spend most of the War in danger. Some evacuees had nice Guardians, who would feed and look after them, others didn't because their Guardians did not want them. They would have lost an awful lot of possession's, and most likely family members in the war, and the horrible memory will stay with them, forever.

Answer 2

A lot of the evacuees were from inner city areas and so were very poor working-class, they had bad manners, bad hygiene and bad diets. When they moved to middle class families in the countryside they were given "luxuries" such as full plates, toothbrushes and indoor toilets!

However, to the Host families they were often a big inconvinience. The allowance for fostering an evacuee was not in line with rising food prices, so they cost the family a lot of money as well as space (especially if groups of siblings needed to be housed together.)

Hope this helps a bit!

Answer 3

The experience for different evacuees weren't always the same. Some found the experience horrible- often children who came from rich families, as they found in the countryside there wasn't always an indoor toilet or bath. Other evacuees thought that they were in heaven, as in the busy streets of London there was smog and smoke and everything was dirty, where in the country they were given fresh food and the rationing cards could be topped up with extra food from the vegetable patch or farm. However wherever they were, evacuees missed their families.

Answer 4

life was very scary as children had never travelled before

Answer 5

they where some tomes sent back home only if the bombs didnt destroy there home.

Answer 6

Hard, scary, there were often many family seperations, not a good time.