But there was one place refugees could go without ... would go on to harbor nearly 20,000 Jewish evacuees from Europe before and during World War II. But life there was not always pretty.

During the first years of ... It protected the population and the Jews—but at the cost of aligning with Nazi Germany. Denmark got through World War II with little destruction and few casualties ...

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.

Very few Jewish refugees were admitted to Canada during the immediate post-war ... barely 15 years before the outbreak of World War II. The Jewish communities that each came from were obliterated ...

About Face: Jewish Refugees ... I'm a veteran of World War II and Holocaust survivor. - [Female Speaker] Would you please call Mrs. Dublon? I was in the army in England during the war but I ...

The documentary film “Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Resistance during World War II” was streamed in the Donald P. Corbett building on Thursday, April 20th it was sponsored by the University of Maine ...

A Holocaust survivor has paid tribute to the “high risks” people took to help Jews during the Second World ... Holocaust survivors and Second World War refugees who attended a VE Day tea ...

It follows the deportation from Finland of eight Austrian-Jewish refugees by the Gestapo during World War II and the work of Abraham Stiller, a pillar of the Helsinki Jewish community, who tried ...

For far too many around the world ... people during this sad period in history is finally being told in Israel with the recent opening of the Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II.