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Alan Kurdi (born Alan Shenu), initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, [2] [3] was a two-year-old Syrian boy (initially reported as having been three years old) of Kurdish ethnic background [4] whose image made global headlines after he drowned on 2 September 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea along with his mother and brother.
Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France from August 1940 to September 1941 that helped 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees, mostly artists and intellectuals, escape from persecution by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (17 January 1933 – 12 May 2003) was a French-born statesman and activist who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1966 to 1977, during which he reoriented the agency's focus beyond Europe and prepared it for an explosion of complex refugee issues. He was also a proponent of greater ...
Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (né Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue refugee children, mostly Jewish, whose families had fled persecution by Nazi Germany.
Bertolt Brecht – German playwright, refugee from the Nazis during World War II; Elias Canetti – a Bulgarian refugee, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981; Joseph Conrad – author of Heart of Darkness and a refugee. Anne Frank – German-Jewish teen who fled with her family to the Netherlands during WWII.
Refugee Week is a nationwide festival designed to promote understanding and to celebrate the cultural contributions of refugees, and features many events such as music, dance and theatre. [94] In the Roman Catholic Church, the World Day of Migrants and Refugees is celebrated in January each year, since instituted in 1914 by Pope Pius X. [95]
The War Refugee Board was the first and only official American response to the crimes we now call the Holocaust. Winning World War II, however, remained the Allied priority. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia authored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the War Refugee Board was a significant attempt to rescue and relieve Jews ...
Sentenced to death in absentia in 2008. [24] Remained in the embassy until granted parole in December 2020. [23] Addis Tedla: Erich Honecker: General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany: Indicted in Germany for the deaths of 192 East Germans who tried to leave the GDR in violation of anti-Republikflucht laws. Russia: Moscow Chile