War or Persecution, Page 2
Includes evacuees and refugees, exiles, and victims of the Nazi Holocaust
African Children's Choir, Bálint, Lea, Berglas, David, Conrad, Joseph, Duleep Singh (under India - Princely States: 5), Eastman, Charles Alexander, Field, Shirley Ann, Finn Mac Cumhal, Forman, Miloš, Gökçen, Sabiha, Head, Bessie, Jameson, Derek, Jehoash, Kinder der Landstraße, Kindertransport, Kujau, Konrad, Kul Kul Stu Hah, Li Peng, Moses, Nazi Germany, Romulus and Remus, Shoah, Te Waharoa, Vanunu, Mordechai, Westheimer, Ruth Siegel, Wiesel, Eliezer, Wilkomirski, Binjamin, William the Conqueror, Zweig, Stefan Jerzy,
Head, Bessie
Head was the child of a wealthy white South African woman and a Black servant when interracial relationships were illegal in South Africa. Her mother was sent to a mental hospital as punish... [more]
Jameson, Derek
Jameson was born to an unmarried woman and raised by Agnes Wren, who informally fostered a succession of homeless children. When he was seven or eight he discovered that one of the other pe... [more]
Jehoash
Jehoash, King of Judah (not the same man as Jehoash, King of Israel, who lived at the same time) was the son of King Ahaziah. His uncles had been assassinated when he was a baby when Jehu, ... [more]
Kinder der Landstraße
From 1926 to 1973 the Swiss child welfare foundation Pro Juventute (founded in 1912 and still functioning) promoted and carried out, with the active co-operation of the federal, cantonal, a... [more]
Kindertransport
From November 1938 to 3 September 1939 a British organization, The World Movement for the Care of Children, helped 9,254 mostly Jewish children (but including 1,772 gentiles) escape from th... [more]
Kujau, Konrad
Kujau was born in Löbau, near Dresden, the son of a shoemaker who died in 1944. Most of the rest of his family was killed in the bombing of Dresden and the young Kujau was sent to the Ruppe... [more]
Kul Kul Stu Hah
Kul Kul Stu Hah's father was killed in the Battle of Big Hole (Montana) in 1877 and his mother was captured by whites and exiled to Oklahoma soon afterwards. He and other Nez Perce, abou... [more]
Li Peng
Li, an ethnic Hakka, was born the son of Li Shixun and Zhoa Juntao, friends of Zhou Enlai and his wife, Deng Yingchao. His father, who like Zhou and Deng was a Communist revolutionary, was ... [more]
Moses
According to the Bible (Exodus 1-2) Moses was fostered or adopted after his mother, Jochebed, placed him in a basket on the Nile (compare Maui and Romulus and Remus ) to escape an edict ... [more]
Nazi Germany
Three special aspects of this terrible time are related to adoption. These are in addition to the orphans and separated families created when foresighted Jewish parents sent their children ... [more]
