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The US was a world leader in refugee resettlement. Trump stopped all that with one executive order. What does the end of ...
Refugees crossed these same passageways 70 years ago. But they were not Syrians and they traveled in the opposite direction. At the height of World War II, the Middle East Relief and Refugee ...
For 18 months during World War II, Oswego's Fort Ontario would be home for her and more than 980 other refugees from the war. On Friday, Fredkove, now 75, returned to Oswego for the first time.
Today’s column is the first in a series on Martin Schmidt and Jacqueline Virginie Guillaume, World War II teenage refugees from Europe who married in 1951 and later emigrated to this area as ...
David Nasaw, author of "The Last Million," a chronicle of displaced civilians after World War II, said the last refugee camps did not close until the 1950s, when the creation of Israel provided ...
In honor of World Refugee Day on June 20, a look back at LIFE's 1944 coverage of the arrival of World War II refugees in Oswego, N.Y.
World War II refugee exemplifies faith, patriotism By Eleanor Cain Adams, June 22, 2017 12:00 AM Email. Link to X (formally Twitter) User. Brigitte ...
Today’s column is the last in a series on Martin Schmidt and Jacqueline Virginie Guillaume, World War II teenage refugees from Europe who married in 1951 and later emigrated to this area as ...
The Dutch queen sallied forth during the Blitz to the shelter of Claridge’s. Other exiles and refugees joined the British war effort. Martin Rubin reviews “Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied ...
1,000 WWII refugees found safe harbor in Oswego; 78 years later a rediscovered opera tells their story Published: Nov. 01, 2022, 1:01 p.m. "The Golden Cage" tells the story of 1,000 WWII refugees ...
"More than 1.5 million refugees from Ukraine have crossed into neighbouring countries in 10 days — the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II," he tweeted.
Up to 2.2 million refugees have so far fled Ukraine, or some 5% of its population, since Russia's invasion began on Feb. 24, the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday.