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8. Nov. 2014 · The vast territory and huge number of civilians affected by World War 1 caused an unprecedented displacement and forced migration of people in Europe and beyond.1 There is little consensus on the actual number displaced, but more than 9 million were internally displaced persons and more than 3 million were refugees.1–3 Although not comparable to the conflict in World War 1, today there are ...
Hope is the story of Amal Basry, one of 400 Iraqi refugees on the ill-fated SIEV X, which sank between Indonesia and Australia, killing 353 people. 29 March 2023 Films
A ship carrying Polish soldiers and civilian refugees arrives in Iran from the Soviet Union, 1942. On March 19, 1942, General Władysław Anders ordered the evacuation of Polish soldiers and civilians who lived next to army camps. Between March 24 and April 4, 33,069 soldiers left the Soviet Union for Iran, as well as 10,789 civilians ...
11. März 2019 · Asst. Prof. Rachel DeWoskin has visited Shanghai every summer for nearly a decade, walking along streets that more than 18,000 Jewish refugees once called home. Spanning roughly a square mile, those blocks were where they established schools and businesses, rebuilding their lives in one of the few cities that accepted World War II refugees ...
The outbreak of World War II. To face the threat of invasion Switzerland increased defence spending, extended the training of recruits and built defence works. In March 1939 reserves were called up to guard the border with Germany. The population were told to stockpile food, and given instructions about how to prepare their houses in case of ...
6. Aug. 2023 · During World War II, the Japanese army forced all Jewish refugees in Shanghai into the working-class Hongkou district, where they faced overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. "Two bedrooms. Ten ...
29. Nov. 2022 · As Dr Chen put it, Jews during the Second World War were faced with polar-opposite options: the horrors of Auschwitz versus the cafés and theatres of Shanghai. One should remember, however, that the Jewish refugee experience was far from rosy, as has been attested in numerous memoir accounts. Jewish refugees in China, though better off than ...
