Event to mark 80th anniversary of evacuees' return
A poignant event to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Guernsey evacuees returning to the island after the occupation is being ...
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I study refugees, and here are the facts on the history and impact of refugee resettlement in the US
The act, which expired in 1952, allowed more than 350,000 European refugees displaced by World War II to enter the U.S. within the constraints of an existing quota system that defined how many ...
‘A miracle of Western tenacity’: how 10 million refugees found homes after World War II
In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...
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Records of Refugees: 50 years ago, Fort Indiantown Gap played a big role in resettling Vietnamese refugees. You can learn what their lives were like
Fort Indiantown Gap in Lebanon County was filled with nearly identical, nondescript, white two-story barracks buildings ...
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From the Archive: Life in the ‘Shanghai Ghetto’
Last week, JTA reported that the neighborhood in Shanghai that was home to approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees during World War II may be added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.
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WW2: How did one Englishman save 669 children from the Holocaust?
Refugee camps were filling with families forced ... who grew up during World War Two to learn about their experiences. WW2: The Holocaust year by year. documentWW2: The Holocaust year by year ...