List of World War II evacuations

Several instances of evacuations (including both emergency evacuations and forced migrations) occurred during and after World War II.

Forced migrations

 * World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations
 * Forced migration of Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians to Germany as forced labour
 * Forced migration of Jews to Nazi concentration camps in the General Government.
 * Expulsion of Germans after World War II from areas occupied by the Red Army
 * Evacuation of East Prussia
 * Forced internment of Japanese Americans in internment camps, primarily in the western United States.
 * NKVD prisoner massacres

Civilian emergency evacuations

 * Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II, the emergency evacuation of children from British urban areas during the Battle of Britain
 * Evacuation of population in the Western Soviet Union in the wake of Operation Barbarossa
 * Evacuation of Finnish Karelia
 * Finnish war children
 * Evacuations of civilians in Japan during World War II

Military evacuations

 * Operation Dynamo, British evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, France, 1940
 * Operation Aerial, British evacuation of Allied forces from Western France, 1940
 * Operation Cycle, British evacuation of the Beauman Division of Le Havre, France, 1940
 * Operation Alphabet, British evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik, Norway, 1940
 * Evacuations of Commonwealth forces from Greece and Crete during the Battle of Greece, 1941
 * Evacuation for Odessa during the Siege of Odessa
 * Evacuation from Crimea during the Crimea Campaign
 * Evacuations during the Siege of Leningrad
 * Operation Ke, Japanese evacuation from Guadalcanal, Jan-Feb 1943
 * Japanese evacuation from Kiska, July 1943
 * Allied invasion of Sicily, Axis evacuation order to the Royal Italian Army over the Strait of Messina to Italy, 1943
 * Operation Hannibal, German evacuation of the Wehrmacht from East Prussia in advance of the Red Army, 1945
 * Evacuation of Tallinn

Industrial evacuations

 * Evacuation of industries from western USSR to the Urals
 * Evacuation of industries from western USSR to Central Asia
 * Evacuation of industries from western USSR to Kazakhstan
 * Evacuation of industries from western USSR to the Caucasus