The 2,700 residents of Chambon-sur-Lignon in south...  ...France are proud of their tradition of taking in refugees from everywhere. It began in the 16th century, wh...  ...was ready for the victims of fascism. First came refugees from the Spanish Civil War, then the Jews, especi...  ...azis took over in 1942, t...

In the 1930s, as life for Jewish people in Germany...  ...y would issue one if you needed it to travel as a refugee . The city was poor, overcrowded, and ruled by var...  ...le kindness. Gradually, with that support, Jewish refugees began, little by little, to create lives in their...

In 1939, the St. Louis set sail from Hamburg, Germ...  ...he Netherlands and Belgium, did agree to take the refugees when the ship returned to the continent. However,...  ...entries. Read the short version of the St. Louis refugees ' story at Smithsonian. (Image credit: United Stat...

Timmy II is a story of a robot trying to fit in. It's like a cross between Frankenstein (the way he was made) and Pinocchio (father issues) with a modern twist (9/11) and a few laughs. It's that weird.[https://vimeo.com/...

Eighteen-year-old swimmer Yusra Mardini was on tra...  ...Syria through Lebanon and Turkey. They boarded a refugee boat going from Turkey to Greece, but the overloa...  ...er training, and is one of the ten members of the Refugee Olympic Team, supported directly by the IOC.[http...  ...mes. She also hopes to ins...

Western Europe’s last famine began 200 years...  ...sinesses to fail, which led to hordes of starving refugees wandering across the continent looking for relief...  ...it also speaks to the experience of the suffering refugees of the time. Shelley’s miserable Creatur...  ...each than a figure for...

They say it’s never too late to go back to school, but Jonathan Nicola took it a step too far. He signed up at Central Catholic High School in Windsor, Ontario, on a student visa from South Sudan. But an investigat...

@ziyatong I was there! The refugees loved us, children especially. I'm glad we made t...  ...ncouver. The same hotel was housing newly-arrived refugees from Syria. To head off problems, the hotel issue...  ...the convention attendees, notifying them that the refugees were ther...

(Image credit: Edward St. George/Reunite Dias)A fa...  ...way. There, the cat disappeared into the crowd of refugees . The family reported the missing cat, but had to...

It is estimated that two million children have fle...  ...g photographer Magnus Wennman traveled to various refugee camps and gatherings of refugee groups in many countries to document their plight...