Second world war children and women Stock Photos and Images
RMM10TF5–Second World War (1939-1945). USSR. Battle of Stalingrad. Fought between the German and Soviet army (August 1942- February 1943). Citizens fleeing the northern suburbs of the city and refugee in holes. Photography.
RM2B95M0K–EVACUATION SERVICE Vintage 1940's WW2 World War Two poster: Civil Defence, 'Women wanted for Evacuation Service', offer your services to your local council or any branch of Women's Voluntary Services. (WVS) Image of lady volunteers helping a group of evacuee children dressed in smart clothes and school uniforms carrying small suitcases as they arrive in a village, greeting them from the lorries with one lady offering tea to a female truck driver and a small child playing with a dog. Artwork by Jack Mathew.
RMB483E2–events, Second World War / WWII, Germany, slogan 'Protect our women and children against the red beasts', Berlin, 1945,
RM2M3T0N7–WW2 - Home Front - Girl Guide Rangers and Guiders doing forestry work in the West Country - pictured here cutting down bracken and foliage to promote the straight growth of young saplings.
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RM2GH5K0F–Frightened women and children being forced from their homes in Warsaw Ghetto
RMD96C3B–Women and children made homeless by German bombing, walking through a Liverpool street after a nightime raid March 1941. World War II
RM2RTW7CM–On 3rd September 1939, the day the outbreak of the Second World War on the 3rd September 1939 was declared, a German U-boat torpedoed the 'SS Athenia' in mid-Atlantic. Of the 1,000 plus passengers, including women and children, travelling from Belfast to Montreal, just 112 were rescued.
RM2X7RJTR–Original, evocative WW2 era postcard of end of World War 2 street party celebration, women and children and older men, taking tea outside on a long table in their urban street, lots of characters, a cheeky young girl looks into the camera. A lively scene. A typical British street party with many cups of tea. Mainly party for older women and a few men. Vintage Devon. Photo dated August 1945, Salisbury Street, Exmouth, Devon, England, U.K.
RM2BW932W–In response to the dangers of war the British government launched a scheme to evacuate the children from major urban centers to private housing in more rural areas . Photo shows mothers and children during evacuation procedures in Gravesend , Kent . 1939
RM2B00W53–China: The former prisoners of Stanley Camp salute the Union Jack in August, 1945, after 42 months in Japanese captivity. Stanley Internment Camp was a civilian internment camp in Hong Kong during World War II. Located in Stanley, on the southern end of Hong Kong Island, it was used by the Japanese imperial forces to hold non-Chinese enemy nationals after their victory in the Battle of Hong Kong, a battle in the Pacific campaign of World War II. About 2,800 men, women, and children were held at the camp for 44 months from January 1942 to August 1945 when Japanese forces surrendered.
RMRTH0H5–The Winter War. A military conflict between the Soviet union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion on november 1939 when Soviet infantery crossed the border on the Karelian Isthmus. About 9500 Swedish volunteer soldiers participated in the war. Here at Karelian Isthmus Finland Finnish civilians evacuated from the frontline. A young mother and her child. December 1939. Photo Kristoffersson ref 98-11.
RM2J6Y3CE–'Women Wanted For Evacuation Service' WWII Civil Defence poster in memorabilia (replica) relating to children during WWII.
RMDT9B7K–Grave in Oradour sur Glane the village in France where over 600 men women and children were killed by the Nazis in June 1944
RMW7CR0P–Children at a home run by the German Ministry of Health, World War II, 1939-1945. Artist: Unknown
RMRGFKH4–children playing at the urban garden changed in military garden, italy 1942
RMAN9NFB–Inscription on a war memorial statue in East Sussex UK
RMTXGHTK–Photographic print showing women and children aboard a boat taking them away from the regions where General Franco's conquests brought war. Dated 20th Century
RMB3EF9C–Children/ Concentration camp/ Lithuania
RMC47W3T–Second anniversary celebration of the liberation of Przemysl, 1917
RM2F4TRXM–British, WW2, Evacuation of Children poster, She's in the Ranks too!, Caring for evacuees is a national service, (Foster Carer among Soldiers), 1942-1945
RMBHKD60–events, Second World War / WWII, Russia 1945 / 1945, Red Army soldiers talking to civilians, probably 1945, end of war, victors, victory, 20th century, historic, historical, Soviet Union, conversation, smiling, occupation, USSR, occupying force, women, children, kids, people, 1940s,
RM2M99WX3–Women queuing outside a Food Office for ration books at the beginning of the Second World War.
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RMMW87YE–A Second World War poster from London encouraging men to walk, leaving the trains to women and children
RMG1DCF8–Photographic print showing women and children aboard a boat taking them away from the regions where General Franco's conquests brought war. Dated 20th Century
RFPK02GN–Civilians mourning a soldier, a war memorial in Lodève, France, made by the sculptor Paul Dardé
RMM58TD6–WW2 era comic postcard -' what the country needs is more production' printed in London, ,probably in response to government propaganda urging the country to produce more on the home front, circa 1939, U.K.
RM2BW9334–In response to the dangers of war the British government launched a scheme to evacuate the children from major urban centers to private housing in more rural areas . Photo shows children during evacuation procedures in Gravesend , Kent . 1939
RMPMH380–Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK. 18th September, 2018. The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, meets admirers as visits Stourbridge to unveil a new statue of Frank Foley, often called the 'British Schindler'. Major Foley was an undercover British spy based in Berlin where he provided documents to help 10,000 Jewish men, women and children escape before the Second World War. Peter Lopeman/Alamy Live News
RMT61WN9–The Winter War. A military conflict between the Soviet union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion on november 1939 when Soviet infantery crossed the border on the Karelian Isthmus. Here local people with name tags around their necks ready to be evacuated on the Karelian Isthmus. December 1939. Photo Kristoffersson ref 98-14
RM2GGE7GB–A woman and her two children, the tenants of the 3000th Easiform dwelling to be completed in Bristol, posed next to the Lord Mayor of Bristol and the Lady Mayoress. This image shows the opening of the 3000th Easiform dwelling in Bristol. The key was presented to the tenant by the Lord Mayor of Bristol. The Chairman of the Housing Committee announced that the new tenant was the 16,689th tenant to be housed or rehoused by the Council following the end of the Second World War in 1945. Sir Maurice Laing also attended the ceremony and reflected on the success of the house building programme in Bris
RMBBT10C–Oradour sur Glane the village in France where over 600 men women and children were killed by the Nazis in June 1944
RM2BEMAF9–truck load of French refugees outside the American Red Cross canteen at the Gare du Nord, Paris, who are about to start on the second leg of their journey to the south of France, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, June 1918
RMM41D57–The women and children of Europe accusent ! By the RAF. It was Britain who dopped the first bombs on the civilian population on 12 January 1940, theo matejko, 1942
RMAN9P0B–Red poppy s on a memorial statue in East Sussex UK
RM2K9MMR7–The remains of the Village of Oradour-sur-Glane where 643 men women and children were Murdered by the Nazis on 10th June 1944, Haute-Vienne, France
RM2HHRW5J–How women of Britain are helping the war effort. These wives and mothers have banded themselves together into a Aircraft Inspection Department and their works are in an off licence somewhere in London. They work from 9am to 5pm and rush home at midday to see to their children. Many thousands of parts pass through their hands every week. 23rd September 1943.
RM2AG0HMK–'Evacuee Play Centre', c1943. Evacuated children at a nursery during the Second World War. From "Women's Institutes', by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]
RM2A3MRWH–British, WW2, Evacuation of Children poster, She's in the Ranks too!, Caring for evacuees is a national service, (foster carer figure among soldiers), 1939-1946
RMBBNA85–events, Second World War / WWII, Russia 1944 / 1945, Crimea, Ukrainian refugees, near Sevastopol, 26.4.1944, 20th century, historic, historical, Eastern Front, USSR, Soviet Union, Ukraine, civilians, women, children, flight, fleeing, luggage, baggage, people, misery, distress, 1940s,
RM2K647F1–1940s East Africa - Somali women and children, itinerant traders, Kenya Photograph by a British army recruitment officer stationed in East Africa and the Middle East during World War II
RMWBP3KK–D-Day Darlings performing at the Children in Need Little Gransden Air and Car Show with a Hawker Hurricane Second World War fighter plane as backdrop
RM2M62AKJ–Women and children who take refuge in the city's catacombs during the bombing of Syracuse in Sicily as part of Operation Ladbroke (the alied invasion of Sicily) during WW2
RMD987MN–Women and children deported by train to death camps in Eastern Europe by the Nazi's c1942.
RM2ARPH7Y–Destruction: Rhenen Destroyed road bridge. With a handcart women and children retrieve building materials on Date: 1945 Location: Rhenen, Rhine Keywords: bridges, Second World War, destruction
RMDD77PE–Mothers protest to keep America out of war, Nov. 8, 1939. Women with baby carriages marching for peace in New York City, with
RM2BW933C–In response to the dangers of war the British government launched a scheme to evacuate the children from major urban centers to private housing in more rural areas . Photo shows mothers and children during evacuation procedures in Gravesend , Kent . 1939
RMPMH37K–Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK. 18th September, 2018. The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, meets admirers as visits Stourbridge to unveil a new statue of Frank Foley, often called the 'British Schindler'. Major Foley was an undercover British spy based in Berlin where he provided documents to help 10,000 Jewish men, women and children escape before the Second World War. Peter Lopeman/Alamy Live News
RM2HX2HJ7–Mother carries her child while taking shelter in Przemy?l Railway Station after fleeing from the war situation in Ukraine.Millions of Ukrainians have been fled from their homeland under ongoing war crisis in Ukraine continues, most of them are women and children. According to UN agency, the numbers of refugee migration have hit 1.5 million, which is the fastest-ever since the Second World War. Due to current refugee crisis, the Polish government have announced a plan of 8 billion zloty ($1.7 billion) to aid the refugees.
RM2X4G375–World War 2 in Europe. Finnish children in Sweden. In February 1944, the Finnish cities are exposed to bombings. The Finnish civilian population had to endure a lot of suffering and for that reason the evacuation of Finnish children to Sweden increased in order to put the children to safety. The children were sent from Finland to Sweden and the goal was that all children would be reunited with their relatives after the war. Many of the children never returned to Finland. Instead, they were adopted by a Swedish foster family. In total, nearly 49,000 Finnish children were brought to Sweden under
RMBBT0RR–Oradour sur Glane the village in France where over 600 men women and children were killed by the Nazis in June 1944
RMW3C4MJ–WWII - VE day celebrations Wolverton (Milton Keynes), Buckinghamshire
RMWB8HX4–Fivizzano, Italy. 25th August 2019. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier greets visitors at a commemorative event for the victims of the massacres at Fivizzano. In the final phase of the Second World War, Wehrmacht soldiers and SS murdered several thousand civilians in Italy. 75 years ago, in the region around Fivizzano in northern Tuscany alone, almost 400 men, women, old people and children were murdered by the Germans, often in an unimaginably cruel way, in a massacre lasting several days. Federal President Steinmeier and his wife take part in the annual commemoration ceremony for the
RMAN9N1A–Wreath of flowers on a memorial statue in East Sussex UK
RM2K9MMWM–The remains of the Village of Oradour-sur-Glane where 643 men women and children were Murdered by the Nazis on 10th June 1944, Haute-Vienne, France
RM2T1M0YE–The Civilian Evacuation Scheme in Britain during the Second World War The Welfare and Social Centres in England's villages are doing magnificent work, not only for their own people but for the hundreds of thousands of evacuees who are now living amongst them. Photo shows: Women and children collect wool for children's clothing from a centre in a Hertfordshire village.
RM2J3H7MC–'School Dinner for Evacuated Children', 1943. Scene from the Second World War: British evacuees are fed. From "Women's Institutes', by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]
RMP3WH2T–Judith Kerr, British writer and illustrator. She has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came to Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the semi-autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which gave a child's-eye view of the Second World War. Born in Germany, of Jewish background, she came to Britain with her family in 1933 amid the rise of the Nazis.. Pictured at the 2018 Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts. The annual festival in the small town of Hay on Wye on the Welsh borders , attracts writers and thinkers from across the
RMBBNA8B–events, Second World War / WWII, Russia 1944 / 1945, Crimea, Ukrainian refugees, near Sevastopol, 26.4.1944, 20th century, historic, historical, Eastern Front, USSR, Soviet Union, Ukraine, civilians, men, women, children, flight, fleeing, luggage, baggage, people, misery, distress, cart, 1940s,
RM2M3RY5B–British soldiers photographed smiling as they leave their home for the Western Front, a few weeks into the Second World War. Women and children are shown waving as the men march through, some of whom raise their hats in salute. Date: 1939
RMWBP3H8–D-Day Darlings performing at the Children in Need Little Gransden Air and Car Show with a Hawker Hurricane Second World War fighter plane as backdrop
RM2PH37N0–Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers.
RMB56T0K–ATS soldiers with baby in Birmingham during the Second World war. December 1940 P010068
RM2APT9K7–Female NICA officials hand out something to children Annotation: Repronegative Date: 1940-1945 Location: Indonesia, Dutch East Indies Keywords: children, military, Second World War, women
RMAGXECW–Memorial (on N10 trunk road south of St.Maure-de-Touraine) ) to Martyrs of Maille, Indre-et-Loire, France.
RM2BW932M–In response to the dangers of war the British government launched a scheme to evacuate the children from major urban centers to private housing in more rural areas . Photo shows mothers and children during evacuation procedures in Gravesend , Kent . 1939
RMPMH35B–Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK. 18th September, 2018. The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, meets admirers as visits Stourbridge to unveil a new statue of Frank Foley, often called the 'British Schindler'. Major Foley was an undercover British spy based in Berlin where he provided documents to help 10,000 Jewish men, women and children escape before the Second World War. Peter Lopeman/Alamy Live News
RM2HX2M4F–A woman carries her baby in her arms at the train platform of Warszawa Centralna Railway Station, as they wait for transit to other cities and countries for settling down. As war crisis in Ukraine continues, millions of Ukrainians have been fled from their homeland to Poland, most of them are women and children. Most of them temporarily resting in railway stations in Warsaw and awaiting for settling down. According to UN agency, the numbers of refugee migration have hit 1.5 million, which is the fastest-ever since the Second World War. The Polish government have announced a plan of 8 billion z
RM2X4G373–World War 2 in Europe. Finnish children in Sweden. In February 1944, the Finnish cities are exposed to bombings. The Finnish civilian population had to endure a lot of suffering and for that reason the evacuation of Finnish children to Sweden increased in order to put the children to safety. The children were sent from Finland to Sweden and the goal was that all children would be reunited with their relatives after the war. Many of the children never returned to Finland. Instead, they were adopted by a Swedish foster family. In total, nearly 49,000 Finnish children were brought to Sweden under
RMBBT0WC–Oradour sur Glane the village in France where over 600 men women and children were killed by the Nazis in June 1944
RM2HX2MAK–A woman carries her baby in her arms at the train platform of Warszawa Centralna Railway Station, as they wait for transit to other cities and countries for settling down. As war crisis in Ukraine continues, millions of Ukrainians have been fled from their homeland to Poland, most of them are women and children. Most of them temporarily resting in railway stations in Warsaw and awaiting for settling down. According to UN agency, the numbers of refugee migration have hit 1.5 million, which is the fastest-ever since the Second World War. The Polish government have announced a plan of 8 billion z
RMWB8GDH–Fivizzano, Italy. 25th August 2019. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier gives an Italian speech at the commemoration ceremony for the victims of the Fivizzano massacres. In the final phase of the Second World War, Wehrmacht soldiers and SS murdered several thousand civilians in Italy. 75 years ago, in the region around Fivizzano in northern Tuscany alone, almost 400 men, women, old people and children were murdered by the Germans, often in an unimaginably cruel way, in a massacre lasting several days. Federal President Steinmeier and his wife take part in the annual commemoration ceremony for th
RF2FKTG4G–CHELYABINSK, RUSSIA, MAY 09, 2017: women, men and children carry a portrait of his relatives - veteran the Second World War. May 9 - Day of Victory ov
RM2K9MN1R–The remains of the Village of Oradour-sur-Glane where 643 men women and children were Murdered by the Nazis on 10th June 1944, Haute-Vienne, France
RM2T1KNG4–Ministry of Information Exhibitions during the Second World War, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK, 1942 A corner of the Women's War Work exhibition in Luton. In the shop window, children play, as a group of women and older children crowd outside to look in at them through the window. A sign reads: 'Join in Luton's great arms drive. The war cannot be won without more women in the factories'.
RM2J3H42F–'Evacuated Children with their Teacher', 1943. Scene from the Second World War: British evacuees in the countryside. From "Women's Institutes', by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]
RMP3WH2X–Judith Kerr, British writer and illustrator. She has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came to Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the semi-autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which gave a child's-eye view of the Second World War. Born in Germany, of Jewish background, she came to Britain with her family in 1933 amid the rise of the Nazis.. Pictured at the 2018 Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts. The annual festival in the small town of Hay on Wye on the Welsh borders , attracts writers and thinkers from across the
RMBBNA8N–events, Second World War / WWII, Russia 1944 / 1945, Crimea, Ukrainian refugees, near Sevastopol, 26.4.1944, 20th century, historic, historical, Eastern Front, USSR, Soviet Union, Ukraine, civilians, men, women, flight, fleeing, luggage, baggage, people, misery, distress, bags, children, kids, family, 1940s,
RM2M3JP5Y–'Let's talk about your child's food'. We women at the Ministry of Food who assist Lord Woolton in answering your letters, share his deep interest in helping you to feed your children properly in war-time. Our hearts are in it: many of us have children of our own and, like yourselves, we are practical housewives. We know how worrying it is when you can't buy foods the children are used to. But we have been trained to know food values and how one food can take the place of another if necessary; and we are glad of the opportunity to share that knowledge with you. 1941
RMJRKBG9–1945 following the defeat of Germany by allied forces, German refugee women and children walk through the ruins of Berlin.
RM2PH37MP–Children from Carpathian Ruthenia walking towards the gas chambers. After the selection process on the train station platform, those doomed to die were walked directly to the gas chambers.
RME5GG6M–1939 Daily Sketch front page reporting Women and children victims of German bombers
RM2APX5N0–Wells. Church in which the women and children of Putten during the raid of October 1944 were driven together by the SS Date: 29 October 1945 Location: Wells Keywords: interiors, churches, Second World War
RMHM9RD5–AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP Still from Soviet Army film of women and children still in shock after the Red Army liberation in January 1945
RM2BW9331–In response to the dangers of war the British government launched a scheme to evacuate the children from major urban centers to private housing in more rural areas . Photo shows mothers and children during evacuation procedures in Gravesend , Kent . 1939
RMPMH366–Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK. 18th September, 2018. The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, meets admirers as visits Stourbridge to unveil a new statue of Frank Foley, often called the 'British Schindler'. Major Foley was an undercover British spy based in Berlin where he provided documents to help 10,000 Jewish men, women and children escape before the Second World War. Peter Lopeman/Alamy Live News
RM2HX0CWH–Mothers and their children resting in Warszawa Zachodnia station. As war crisis in Ukraine continues, millions of Ukrainians have been fled from their homeland to Poland, most of them are women and children. Most of them temporarily resting in railway stations in Warsaw and awaiting for settling down, According to UN agency, the numbers of refugee migration have hit 1.5 million, which is the fastest-ever since the Second World War. The Polish government has announced a plan of 8 billion zloty ($1.7 billion) to aid the refugees.
RM2X4G374–World War 2 in Europe. Finnish children in Sweden. A doctor examines a small Finnish boy with a stethoscope. The doctor has placed the note attached with a string around the neck with the boy's name on the boy's back. In February 1944, the Finnish cities are exposed to bombings. The Finnish civilian population had to endure a lot of suffering and for that reason the evacuation of Finnish children to Sweden increased in order to put the children to safety. The children were sent from Finland to Sweden and the goal was that all children would be reunited with their relatives after the war. Many
RMBBMRCR–Oradour sur Glane the village in France where over 600 men women and children were killed by the Nazis in June 1944
RM2HX2J2G–Mother carries her child while taking shelter in Przemy?l Railway Station after fleeing from the war situation in Ukraine.Millions of Ukrainians have been fled from their homeland under ongoing war crisis in Ukraine continues, most of them are women and children. According to UN agency, the numbers of refugee migration have hit 1.5 million, which is the fastest-ever since the Second World War. Due to current refugee crisis, the Polish government have announced a plan of 8 billion zloty ($1.7 billion) to aid the refugees. (Photo by Alex Chan Tsz Yuk/SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
RMWB8DDB–Fivizzano, Italy. 25th August 2019. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier gives an Italian speech at the commemoration ceremony for the victims of the Fivizzano massacres. In the final phase of the Second World War, Wehrmacht soldiers and SS murdered several thousand civilians in Italy. 75 years ago, in the region around Fivizzano in northern Tuscany alone, almost 400 men, women, old people and children were murdered by the Germans, often in an unimaginably cruel way, in a massacre lasting several days. Federal President Steinmeier and his wife take part in the annual commemoration ceremony for th
RF2FKTG92–CHELYABINSK, RUSSIA, MAY 09, 2017: women, men and children carry a portrait of his relatives - veteran the Second World War. May 9 - Day of Victory ov
RM2K9MNE1–The remains of the Village of Oradour-sur-Glane where 643 men women and children were Murdered by the Nazis on 10th June 1944, Haute-Vienne, France
RM2T1KNDK–Ministry of Information Exhibitions during the Second World War, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK, 1942 Two women hold their children in their arms as they listen to women war workers explaining about munitions at a war industry exhibition in Leicester. A display of various shells and other munitions can be seen. A notice reads: 'You, too, can help build the planes that will blast the way to complete victory'. Several soldiers are just visible in the background.
RM2J3H3XB–'Children Leaving London for the Country', 1943. British evacuees escape bombs during the Second World War. From "Women's Institutes', by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]
RMP3WH1X–Judith Kerr, British writer and illustrator. She has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came to Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the semi-autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which gave a child's-eye view of the Second World War. Born in Germany, of Jewish background, she came to Britain with her family in 1933 amid the rise of the Nazis.. Pictured at the 2018 Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts. The annual festival in the small town of Hay on Wye on the Welsh borders , attracts writers and thinkers from across the
RMBBNA8H–events, Second World War / WWII, Russia 1944 / 1945, Crimea, Ukrainian refugees, near Sevastopol, 26.4.1944, 20th century, historic, historical, Eastern Front, USSR, Soviet Union, Ukraine, civilians, men, women, flight, fleeing, luggage, baggage, people, misery, distress, bags, suitcase, child, kid, children, kids, 1940s,
RMG3ARM2–A street celebration with flags in Battersea, South London, to celebrate the end of the Second World War on VE Day. Date: 1945
RM2RHBGNC–Hyde Park, New York: August 10, 1946 Eleanor Roosevelt with a group of World War II widows and their children at her Hyde Park estate where she invited them for a picnic today.
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