After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.
James Meade
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
Jack Steinberger
That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.
Les Aspin
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
Philip Emeagwali
The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.
Connie Sellecca
The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee.
Leonid Kuchma
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
Gyorgy Ligeti
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