Eighty years ago, in September 1939, Operation Pied Piper—a World War II effort to evacuate Britain’s most vulnerable citizens from areas deemed most vulnerable to German attack—was put into effect. In the first three days alone, 1.5 million people, most of them children, left their homes.
Aubrey Nolan is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her comics and illustrations have been featured by The New Yorker, The Nib, Huffington Post, and Medium, and posts additional artwork on her Instagram. (September 2019)
