Pfaudler Lecture Series - Little Ambassadors: The 'Kodakids' of World War II

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Mary Jo Lanphear, Brighton, NY Town Historian

One of the most, if not the most, emotionally wrenching decisions made by the British government during World War II was to relocate its children out of urban centers to areas where the risk of bombing attacks was low or non-existent. Operation Pied Piper evacuated, and then shipped, nearly three million children to rural regions in Britain as well as to Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. It was the largest and most concentrated population movement in British history. US corporations and private relief organizations arranged for thousands of children to stay in this country. Employees of Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY, among others, volunteered to take children of employees from its British subsidiaries. Mary Jo Lanphear will tell the story of these KodaKids, who became Britain's ambassadors.