The Children’s War
Charlotte:
December 21st, 2006
If you have time over Christmas and live near London try to fit in a trip to the Imperial War Museum’s exhibition on The Children’s War. It is fascinating and personalises all the dull facts that we had to learn at school about the Second World War. The highlight for me was the letters written by evacuees to their parents and vice versa. Some are just too sad to linger over especially the ones from children who were badly treated by their foster parents or even just homesick. The most poignant of all though was a letter written by a mother to her little girl who was being evacuated to Canada. She sent it ahead of the event so that it would be waiting in Canada for her daughter when she arrived. Sadly the ship on which the children were travelling was sunk and there was only a handful of survivors, which did not include this particular little girl. The exhibition is beautifully laid out and appeals to a large age range and what’s best is that it’s free!