The World War II refugee story that inspires this mom and son June 17, 2022. When asked how her family story has ... is currently shooting an upcoming Netflix series,“Transatlantic,” which depicts ...

GENEVA, June 20 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency reported today on World Refugee Day that the number of refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people worldwide has, for the first time in the ...

Refugees established communities in displaced persons (DP) camps across Germany. Getty Images. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, upward of six million concentration camp survivors ...

Displaced: ‘The Last Million’ refugees to leave Europe after World War II Resettlement of refugees – among them 25,000 Jewish people – proceeded slowly, with many nations closing their doors.

Around 80 percent of the world’s refugees have been living in exile for five years, and around one-fifth of them for 20 years, it noted, underscoring the intractable nature of the situation.

Netflix’s Transatlantic tells the story of how Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee helped thousands of refugees flee France during World War II. Read how the organization became the ...

One of Julek Plowy's first memories as a young World War II Polish refugee in Mexico is eating raw onions like an apple while sitting on a swing. "My mother was told by the doctors it was to ...

Of the 5,000,000 D.P.s at the end of the war, the [International Refugee Organization], which was created by the United Nations in 1946, has helped send 3,500,000 back to their homes, has ...

100 million people - a new record This year, World Refugee Day -June 20th- falls almost 4 months after Russia invaded Ukraine. But the war in Ukraine is just one of the reasons there are now over ...

Europe’s refugee crisis has been described as the worst of its kind since World War II, at the end of which there were more than 40 million refugees in the region.. The crisis led to the ...

The world is now experiencing the biggest refugee crisis since World War II: Nearly 79.5 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced from their homes, according to the United Nations ...

For more than seventy-five years, the United States has accepted migrants who would be identified under current international law as refugees. In the wake of World War II, the United States passed ...