Holocaust refugees
Displaced genocide survivors
Holocaust refugees are Jewish people and others who fled Nazi persecution and genocide during World War II, seeking safety in other countries.
The term encompasses those who escaped before and during the Holocaust, as well as survivors displaced afterward: Many Holocaust refugees settled in Palestine, later Israel.
Her grandparents were Holocaust refugees who came to America in 1939.
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- Nazi regimeHitler's totalitarian German state
- international lawRules governing relations between countries
- oral historiesRecorded spoken recollections
- displacementRemoval from usual location
asylum · World War II · family separation · statelessness · safe haven · intergenerational trauma · immigration quotas · identity papers · survival · concentration camps · diaspora · Kindertransport · displaced persons · resettlement · Kristallnacht · ghettos · memoirs · human rights advocacy
- Jewish migrationaliyah, Russian Jews, German Jews, refuseniks, displaced persons
- Jewish DiasporaJewish community, dispersion, Ashkenazi Jews, crypto-Jews, Babylonian exile
- refugeesdisplaced persons, asylum seekers, resettlement, displaced families, asylum application
- Latin American JewsJewish immigration, immigration history
- Mandate PalestineBritish Mandate, Balfour Declaration, British rule, illegal immigration, League of Nations