Refugees Refugees Abdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb is an Iraqi-born journalist currently living, with refugee status, in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb"
Albert Einstein ( March 14, 1879– April 18, 1955) was a German- Swiss- American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent, born in Ulm, Germany, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his " miracle year") and "for his services to Theoretical Physics." ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Einstein"
Alfred Dubs, Baron Dubs of Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth is a United Kingdom politician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alf Dubs"
Amba Bongo is a writer and advocate for refugees from Congo-Kinshasa. She had been involved in the Ministry of Education of her native country, but had to flee after 1991 because she denounced its corruption. She applied for asylum status in the United Kingdom soon after fleeing the Congo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amba Bongo"
Anna Freud ( December 3, 1895, Vienna, Austria - October 9, 1982, London, England), the daughter of Sigmund Freud ( 1856- 1939) and his wife Martha Bernays ( 1861- 1951), was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst, and pioneer of child psychoanalysis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anna Freud"
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank ( June 12, 1929 – ca. March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Her family had moved to Amsterdam after the Nazis gained power in Germany but were trapped when the Nazi occupation extended into The Netherlands. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in Otto Frank's office building. After two years in hiding, the group was betrayed and transported to the concentration camp system where Anne died of typhus (in Bergen-Belsen) within days of her sister, Margot, in February or March 1945. Her father, Otto, the only survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam after the war ended, to find that her diary had been saved. Convinced that it was a unique record, he took action to have it published. It is published in English under the name The Diary of a Young Girl. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anne Frank"
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he became a U.S. citizen) ( September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was an Austrian- American composer. He is particularly remembered as one of the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development, and for his twelve tone technique of composition using tone rows. He was also an important music theorist and an influential teacher of composition. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arnold Schoenberg"
Sir Bernard Katz ( March 26, 1911 – April 20, 2003) was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was knighted in 1970. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernard Katz"
Billy Wilder ( June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was a screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age and many of his films achieved both critical and public acclaim. ...more on Wikipedia about "Billy Wilder"
Boat people is a term (usually) referring to impoverished illegal immigrants or asylum seekers, who arrive en masse in old or crudely-made boats. The term came into common use during the 1970s, with the mass departure of Vietnamese refugees from communist-controlled Vietnam, following the Vietnam War. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boat people"
Claus Adolf Moser, now Lord Moser, is a British statistician who has made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service. ...more on Wikipedia about "Claus Moser"
Sir Clement Raphael Freud (born April 24, 1924) is a British writer, broadcaster and politician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clement Freud"
The Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA) is a program, adopted in June, 1989 at a conference in Geneva held by The Steering Committee of the International Conference on Indo-Chinese Refugees, which was designed to deter and to stop the continuing influx of Indochinese boat people and to cope with an increasing reluctance by third countries to maintain resettlement opportunities for every Vietnamese or Laotian exile, with the thread of countries of first asylum in Southeast Asia to push-backs the asylum seekers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comprehensive Plan Of Action"
The United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees is an international convention that defines who is a refugee, and sets out the rights of individuals who are granted asylum and the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum. The convention also sets out which people do not qualify as refugees, such as war criminals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees"
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Edith Bülbring ( 27 December 1903- 5 July 1990) was Professor of Pharmacology, Oxford University, 1967-71, later Emeritus Professor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edith Bulbring"
Edith Frank-Holländer ( January 16 1900 – January 6 1945), was the mother of Anne Frank. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edith Frank-Holländer"
Elias Canetti ( Ruse 25 July, 1905- Zurich, 13 August, 1994) was a Bulgarian-born British- Austrian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner, who wrote in German. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elias Canetti"
Friedrich Anton Christian Lang ( December 5, 1890 - August 2, 1976) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known emigrés from Germany's school of expressionism. His most famous films are probably the groundbreaking Metropolis (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and M, made before he moved to the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fritz Lang"
Friedrich 'Fritz' Pfeffer ( April 30, 1889 – December 20, 1944) was a German dentist and Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands, and who perished in the Neuengamme concentration camp in Northern Germany. In Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, Pfeffer is given the pseudonym Albert Dussel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fritz Pfeffer"
Fritzi Massary (born 31 March 1882 in Vienna, Austria; died 30 January 1969 in Los Angeles, California) was an Austrian-American soprano. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fritzi Massary"
Georg Solti, KBE (born György Stern, October 21, 1912 - September 5, 1997) was a world-renowned Hungarian-born British orchestral and operatic conductor, who was still actively engaged in performing right up until his death. ...more on Wikipedia about "Georg Solti"
The Great Lakes refugee crisis is the common name for the situation beginning with the exodus in April 1994 of over two million Rwandans to neighboring countries of the Great Lakes region of Africa in the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide. Many of the refugees were Hutu ethnics fleeing the predominantly Tutsi Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), which invaded to end the Rwandan Genocide. However, the humanitarian relief effort was vastly complicated by the presence among the refugees of many of the Interahamwe and government officials who carried out the genocide, who used the refugee camps as bases to launch attacks against the new government of Paul Kagame. The camps in Zaire became particularly politicized and militarized. The knowledge that humanitarian aid was being diverted to military ends led many humanitarian organizations to withdraw their assistance. The conflict escalated until the start of the First Congo War in late 1996, when RPF-supported rebels invaded Zaire (soon thereafter, the Democratic Republic of Congo) and the refugees were repatriated. ...more on Wikipedia about "Great Lakes refugee crisis"
Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, born 29 July 1921, Germany, son of Max Born, is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gustav Victor Rudolf Born"
Henry Alfred Kissinger (born May 27, 1923 in Fürth, Germany, as Heinz Alfred Kissinger) is a Jewish-American diplomat and statesman. He served as National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State in the Nixon administration, continuing in the latter position after Gerald Ford became President in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Kissinger"
Hermann van Pels ( 31 March 1898– 6 September 1944) was a German-Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and her family during the occupation of The Netherlands by Nazi Germany , and who was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp after they were betrayed to the Gestapo. When Anne Frank's diary was published in 1947 the names of all those mentioned apart from those of the Frank family were changed. Van Pels was given the pseudonym Herman van Daan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hermann van Pels"
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