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.

The Balkan state is the only Nazi-occupied territory whose Jewish population increased during World War II, thanks to the bravery of ordinary families who harboured thousands of refugees fleeing ...

Despite the risks involved, Irena harbored several Jewish refugees in the basement of the officer’s house, providing them with food, shelter, and protection from the Nazis.

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and directs the Program in Jewish Studies. Her current book project, entitled “A Nation of Refugees: World War I and the End of Russia’s Jews” (under contract with Oxford University Press), explores ...

She has published several books, most recently “Unexpected Routes Refugee ... Hungary to Jewish parents. He made it to Mexico and lived there until the end of World War II.

The order closed the country to 700 Iranian Jews who had applied for refugee status through HIAS, including Haroun’s parents, siblings and cousins. These Jews were among more than 13,000 ...