Title: The orphans of Normandy
Description: Relates how 100 young schoolgirls, many of them orphans, and their teachers managed to escape the chaos of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, l944, by taking shelter in an iron mine for thirty-eight days and, after being forced out by the Germans, walking for twenty-nine days to reach safety behind Allied lines.
Subjects: Campaigns, Children, Children's art, History, Juvenile literature, Orphans, Survival, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- France -- Normandy -- Juvenile literature., Evacuation of civilians, Mädchen, Flucht, Kinderzeichnung, Waisenkind, Invasion <1944>, Children, juvenile literature, World war, 1939-1945, juvenile literature
Places: France, Normandy, Normandy (France)
Time periods: 20th century, German occupation, 1940-1945