Eastman Kodak's Kodakids: Britain's Young Ambassadors from Harrow

During the Second World War, the British government implemented "Operation Pied Piper" to evacuate children to rural Britain in addition to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, and the United States. This was considered the largest movement of the British population in British history. Many private organizations, individual sponsors, and corporations brought thousands of children to safety in North America. Eastman Kodak Company, located in Rochester, New York, USA, was one of them and sponsored the largest single group of refugee children. More than 600 Kodak families in Rochester responded to a letter distributed in the summer of 1940 and agreed to take in the children of British Kodak employees.