War or Persecution, Page 3
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,
Romulus and Remus
These were twin sons of Mars and Rhea Silvia. Their grandfather, Numitor, was the king of Alba Longa and was deposed by his younger brother, Amulius, who ordered the twins to be thrown into... [more]
Shoah
The Shoah, also known as the Holocaust , is the name given to the attempt by Nazi Germany to exterminate not only the Jews of Europe, their primary target, but also the mentally and physic... [more]
Te Waharoa
Te Waharoa was the son of Tangimoana and Te Kahurangi. While he was still a young boy, the fortified village near Matamata, where he lived with his mother, was attacked by a party from the ... [more]
Vanunu, Mordechai
Vanunu was born in Morocco to a religious Jewish family who emigrated to Israel in 1963. After service in the Israeli Defence Force he started working at a nuclear research station. In ... [more]
Westheimer, Ruth Siegel
Westheimer, known to millions as Dr. Ruth, is the most famous psychosexual therapist in the world. She was sent by her German parents to boarding school in Switzerland when she was 10, a... [more]
Wiesel, Eliezer
Wiesel was born into a Hasidic Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania. In 1944 his village was captured by the Nazis and at 15 he and his family were sent to the Auschwitz concentration cam... [more]
Wilkomirski, Binjamin
Wilkomirski (he is not sure whether this is in fact his real name) claims to be one of the many Jewish children orphaned by the Nazi Holocaust and one of the few hundred young children to s... [more]
William the Conqueror
William was the illegitimate son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, and Herleva, the daughter of a tanner. His father left on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1034 and died the next year while aw... [more]
Zweig, Stefan Jerzy
Zweig was the son of a prosperous Polish Jewish lawyer. When he was only a toddler the Nazis sent him and his father to the Buchenwald concentration camp. There they were separated and his ... [more]
