World War II refugees
Fled Nazi persecution
World War II refugees were people displaced by the conflict of 1939–1945—fleeing persecution, bombing, invasion, or genocide.
The term encompasses Jews escaping Nazi death camps, Europeans displaced by advancing armies, and civilians uprooted across Asia and the Pacific.
Many spent years in camps before resettlement; others never returned home.
Her grandparents came to America as World War II refugees.
- warArmed struggle between groups
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- Red CrossInternational emergency relief organization
- Eastern EuropeContinental region, former Soviet sphere
bombing · internment camps · North Africa · Kindertransport · war orphans · Holocaust remembrance · Anne Frank · occupation · Balkans · stateless · identity papers · transit visas · safe passage · border crossings · forced labor · medical assistance · Scandinavia · United States
- German DiasporaGerman immigrants, German heritage, immigrant communities, German-American, immigration waves
- Poloniadisplaced persons, economic migrants, chain migration, family reunification, naturalized citizens
- Zurich historyProtestant Reformation, Roman settlement, medieval guilds, guild system, Anabaptists
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, citizenship, asylum
world, refugee, worlds, worldly, worldliness, unworldly, warred, warring, warlike