The campaign marks the 5th anniversary of the Syrian war. — -- When Gunter Nitsch was 11 years old, the only thoughts on his mind were feeding his hunger and keeping warm. In 1949, he and his ...

I had long heard that Jewish refugees found refuge in Shanghai during World War II. When I visited the city, I even tried to locate the area where they had ...

With his Open Doors policy, even as most nations closed their doors to Jewish refugees, these Jews — who came to be ... in 1944 — two years before Philippine independence following World War II.

Maruta Lietiņš Ray, a St. Cloud resident, experienced World War II as a child in Latvia, fleeing both Soviet and Nazi forces. After living in internment and displaced persons camps, she immigrated to ...

GENEVA – The number of people displaced by war, violence and persecution worldwide is untenably high, particularly as humanitarian funding evaporates, with the only bright spot being a pickup in ...

When Filmax introduced Judith Colell’s “Frontier” (“Frontera”) to buyers at Cannes, the WWII thriller drew attention and was ...

Historian Phi Vân Nguyen explains the crucial role of French-Canadian Jesuits in the post-war Vietnamese refugee crisis, ...

The Vietnam War started in 1955, nearly 8,000 miles away from the U.S. in the dense and remote jungles of South Vietnam. While the U.S. slowly deployed into Vietnam in the 1950s, the full deployment ...