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.

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.

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 ...

About Face: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II Documents the as-yet-untold World War II story of young Jewish men who escaped certain danger at the hands of the Nazis and ...

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 ...

During World War II, while the United States limited immigration to the country and turned away a barge full of Jewish refugees, one port city kept its doors open to Europe’s persecuted Jews ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...