Was the evacuation of children in world war 2 also called the blitz?
No, it was most commonly just referred to as the Evacuation, but also Operation Pied Piper. The Blitz referred solely to the sustained Bombing of British cities during the Battle of Britain.
The children of the evacuation were Britons who had to leave the cities that were being bombed during the blitz bombing campaign Germany waged on England. The children, pregnant women, disabled people and elderly people were boarded on trains and sent to the countryside to stay with people in their homes and on their farms.
Operation Pied Piper the evacuation of children and some adults began on 1 September 1939, prior to the Battle of Britain. The Ministry of Health officially evacuated more than 1.5 million children, elderly, disabled, mothers with babies and teachers. Other cycles of official evacuation and re-evacuation occurred from the South and East coast during June 1940 when a seaborne invasion by the Nazi Germans was expected. The Blitz began in September 1940. The children were…