Ursula’s Story They were lovely, lovely people, just wonderful. We started off calling them Mr.and Mrs.Nieman, but then we called them Mummy Dee and Daddy Al.... read more Background In June 1940, as Germany occupied France, a scheme was set up with the Commonwealth countries and America for government-sponsored children to be evacuated from Britain.... read more There are twenty-one accounts , with portraits and reproduced childhood pictures, in this series of children who were evacuated during the second worldwar. Some children went from cities to other parts of Britain, some went to the States and two went as German children from the bombing in the Rhine and on Berlin. My portraits of them are shown alongside the evacuees’ own accounts of what had happened with extracts from contemporary writings and the ‘History of the Second World War - Problems of Social Policy’ by Richard Titmuss. < Return to Menu