“The Japanese people in Kobe opened their hearts and accepted the Jewish refugees from the mid-1940s to the end of 1941,” it says. The signboard also presents photos showing Jewish refugees ...

Now in their twilight years, former Jewish refugees George Loewenstein, Brigitte Wachs and Mary Farquhar still remember the feeling of fear and uncertainty during the Holocaust. Also tattooed in their ...

The document was found by Tokyo-based freelance writer Akira Kitade, 76, who has been tracing the footsteps of Jewish refugees. Kitade obtained a photo of the visa from Kim Hydorn, a granddaughter ...

But the refugee camp at Irshava is different. For one thing, it’s equipped with a kosher kitchen and accommodates about 200 Jews from across Ukraine. For another, it’s a four-star riverside ...

As Trump proposes moving Palestinians out of Gaza, Roosevelt considered moving Jewish WWII refugees to Alaska.

We knew this was coming, so we tried very hard to promote exceptions, particularly for Iranian religious minorities,” Mark ...

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killing 768 of the 769 Jewish refugees aboard. The Struma became a symbol of the cruel immigration policies of the British Mandate government. Birthday of Meir Dizengoff, one of Tel Aviv’s ...