List of World War II evacuations

Forced migrations

• World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations
• * Forced migration of Poles, Ukrainians, Belorussians, 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 Ariel, 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
• Evacuation for Odessa during the Siege of Odessa
• Evacuation from Crimea during the Crimea Campaign
• Evacuations during the Siege of Leningrad
• Operation Hannibal, German evacuation of the Wehrmacht from East Prussia in advance of the Red Army, 1945
• Evacuation of Tallinn
• Allied invasion of Sicily, Axis evacuation order to the Royal Italian Army over the Strait of Messina to Italy, 1943

  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