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Thought the headline was referring to British kids sent out of the cities during the Blitzkrieg.

Kids from "over-run" Netherlands were also sent to Britain after WWII. While they weren't necessarily orphaned, but needed the educational infrastructure that had been decimated by the National-Socialists.

[Tax-chick]

At our local library recently, there was a display about an organization that relocated Jewish children from continently Europe to England in the early years of WW2. Most of the children never saw their families again.