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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 644

Jewish refugees

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins stitches the first Blue Eagle label into a dress during a ceremony marking the inauguration of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) code label for women's dresses in New York City, January 22, 1934. (AP Photo)
May 19, 2025, 4:37 am
How trailblazing US labor secretary Frances Perkins quietly lobbied for Holocaust refugees
While the labor activist is famous for being the first female Cabinet member, on the 60th anniversary of her death, a new book explores her overlooked efforts to help Jews fleeing the Nazis
By Rich Tenorio
Abraham Hamra faces off with a pro-Palestinian protester in New York City. (Courtesy)
March 17, 2025, 3:39 am
Bucking stereotypes and fighting hatred, a Syrian Jewish ex-refugee lights up Instagram
An immigration lawyer by day, New Yorker Abraham Hamra has gained over 59,000 followers using his fluent Hebrew and Arabic to bridge gaps with adversaries and counter misinformation
By Cathryn J. Prince
An Iranian Jewish man prays at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue in the city of Yazd, 420 miles south of capital Tehran, Iran, November 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
March 7, 2025, 9:04 pm
Trump’s refugee ban is keeping 700 persecuted Iranian Jews out of the US
The US president has signed an order indefinitely halting the admission of refugees – including applicants for a special program for members of religious minority groups in Iran
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
A photo of the Porto cityscape, June 2024. (Romain Chauvet)
August 13, 2024, 7:52 pm
Looking to escape war at home, Israelis seek refugee status in Portugal
As the Israel-Hamas conflict stretches into its 11th month, locals looking to flee its physical and economic perils find a shortcut – albeit temporary – in applying for EU asylum
By Romain Chauvet
The Gateway Jewish Museum of Livingston charges roughly $.30 admission and also showcases Zambia's railroad history. (Harry Wall/JTA)
July 18, 2024, 6:17 am
A railway museum in Zambia offers a clue to the African country’s rich Jewish history
While almost no Jews live there today, the central African nation is still influenced by the community’s historic contributions — particularly as it expands medical infrastructure
By Harry D. Wall
Mandana Dayani speaks at the UN on sexual assault of women on October 7 in New York City, December 4, 2023. (Perry Bindelglass/ NCJW)
May 22, 2024, 2:26 am
Jewish activist who fled Iran sees shades of the fall of the shah on US campuses
I Am A Voter co-founder and pro-democracy advocate Mandana Dayani has turned her focus to America’s surging antisemitism – an issue she sees as inalienable from her core mission
By Jordana Horn
File: "Ritchie Boys" member Guy Stern speaks to the MPs as a guest in Parliament, Lower Saxony, Hanover, Germany, May 14, 2019. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via JTA)
December 14, 2023, 1:37 pm
Guy Stern, who fled Nazis for US and served as WWII intel operative, dies at 101
German Jewish refugee was among last surviving ‘Ritchie Boys,’ who gathered most of Washington’s usable intelligence in war; later became renowned Holocaust scholar
By Andrew Lapin
Young refugees from Israel in a Jewish refugee camp in Balatonoszod, Hungary, November 7, 2023. (AP/Bela Szandelszky)
November 10, 2023, 1:09 pm
Jewish refugees from Israel find comfort in countryside retreat in Hungary
Originally opened to Jews fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a secluded Jewish refugee camp finds itself housing some 250 displaced Jews from the war-torn south of Israel
By Agencies
The Museo Judio de Sosua, which tells the story of the Jewish refugees who found a safe haven in the Dominican Republic during the Holocaust. The museum is closed while the community waits for funding to reopen it. (Dan Fellner/ JTA)
May 11, 2023, 7:54 am
Shuttered museum seeks to tell story of Dominican Republic as haven for Jews in WWII
About 1,000 Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis landed on the island country’s shores. With few relics of that time left, a small Jewish museum wants the government to help it reopen
By dan fellner
A group of children from the Jaeger Kaserne DP camp in Germany read a Yiddish newspaper in an undated photo. (UN Archives via JTA)
January 10, 2023, 9:40 pm
UN exhibit remembers when the world turned its back on stateless Jewish refugees
The YIVO Institute and UN joint project runs through Feb. 23 in NYC, focusing on the day-to-day lives in DP camps of the 250,000 Holocaust survivors with nowhere to go
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
An armed sentry stands guard as civilian aliens, interned by England, walk inside an internment camp in the UK, June 2, 1940. (AP)
November 5, 2022, 10:14 am
They fled persecution in Nazi Germany. Then the British put them behind barbed wire
A new book sheds light on the little-known story of thousands of German Jewish refugees held in internment camps in the UK during World War II – including several of my ancestors
By Amy Spiro
Liudmyla Matrenin and Lev visit the Mediterranean Sea on their first full day in Israel on March 25, 2022. (Courtesy/Liudmyla Matrenin)
August 19, 2022, 2:19 am
For Ukrainian refugees in Israel, Gaza operation rekindles still-smoldering trauma
Many fleeing the Russian invasion already have difficulty accessing child care and medicine while facing an uncertain future in the Jewish state. And then add falling rockets
By Melanie Lidman
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech in Paris, France on Oct. 10, 2018. (Conference of European Rabbis via JTA)
July 17, 2022, 1:27 am
Ex-Moscow chief rabbi fears return of ‘Iron Curtain’ blocking Jewish emigrants
Pinchas Goldschmidt says Jewish Agency ‘not popular’ with Russian government, which wants Jewish community to remain due to its economic and academic contributions
By ToI Staff and JTA
Paul Willer in 2018. (Screenshot: Youtube)
May 21, 2022, 8:55 pm
Jewish refugee who fled Nazis, was hosted by future British PM Attlee, dies at 94
In 1939, then-opposition leader opened home to 10-year-old Paul Willer, who left Germany with mother and brother; Attlee never spoke of the story
By ToI Staff
Jewish children boarding ship as part of a kindertransport out of Nazi occupied Europe. (Courtesy of Pamela Sturhoofd)
April 22, 2022, 12:19 pm
When Jewish kids fled Nazis, UK families took them in. Now they share their stories
British nation had tight-fisted attitude toward Kindertransport refugees, but many regular Brits opened their doors. Foster siblings are giving testimonies never recorded before
By Robert Philpot
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