Sentences with phrase «families fleeing war»

For example, most cities have refugee resettlement organizations that assist families fleeing war - torn countries with housing, education, and employment.

Hà and her family flee war - torn Vietnam for the American South.

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After Alberto's stay in prison, the family decided to flee to the U.S., where, thanks to the Cold War, Cubans could gain near - automatic admittance.

Li, a native of Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, fled to Hong Kong with his family in 1940 during the Sino - Japanese War.

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

The unrelenting war in Syria has caused a massive humanitarian refugee crisis, where families have been forced to flee the conflict: Almost half of the country's entire population is now displaced.

A disturbing footnote to the story of Zionism: Burge reports that Martin Buber, the great Jewish philosopher, mystic and prophet, was given a house owned by a prosperous Palestinian family which fled to Egypt seeking safety during the 1948 war.

Our compassion spills over to families fleeing ISIS in northern Iraq or to the millions fleeing war in places like South Sudan, Congo, or Yemen, to name only a few.

Best Reporting: Eric Marrapodi at CNN with «Stepping - stones to safety: A family flees Syria's war - and finds refuge in Italy's islands»

Eight months earlier, Abdel and his family had fled Syria's bloody civil war.

In addition to these largely weather - driven disasters, there are emergencies caused by humans as well: wars, terrorists, and even governmental policies are creating emergency situations for families around the globe who may find themselves fleeing from their homes and homeland.

As a young boy, he fled Iran with his family after the Islamic Revolution and during the Iran - Iraq War.

In England for their basic training, they meet Sam Epstein (Dimitri Leonidas), a German Jew whose family fled Germany before the war.

Below, on Charlie Rose, she also talks about how she digs back into the Holocaust (as she did for one of her favorite roles as an Mossad spy in John Madden's «The Debt») in order to play elderly Jewish woman Maria Altmann, who 60 years after she fled Vienna during World War II, fought to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting «Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I.» The Weinstein Company now opens Simon Curtis's «Woman in Gold,» co-starring Ryan Reynolds, on April 1.

At the turn of the century, Maria Altmann, a Jewish Austrian who had fled her home on the eve of World War II, pursued legal action both in Austria and in her new home the United States, seeking the return of the artwork that had been stolen from her family home by the Nazis.

Director Marina Willer examines the current refugee crisis through her own family's experience fleeing Prague during World War II in this documentary.

Stepping Stones When civil war reaches their Syrian village, Rama and her family must flee with only the things they can carry to join the «river of people» searching for a better life.

Originally from Bosnia, Lejla's family escaped war by fleeing to Croatia and later Germany before settling in the United States.

In The Best We Could Do, I narrate the story of my family who fled from home in a small boat in the late»70s, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Hostility is rising between the Tamil and Sinhala people, though, and as war erupts between them, Yasodhara's family flees to the U.S., and Shiva's family to England.

They protect and care for their sisters before they are married, and care for their parents as they age; they can help the family fight or flee during times of war; can inherit and pass on the family's property; work and earn a salary to support their families; they can accompany sisters and mothers when they venture outside their homes; and run errands.

After their liberation, the family flees, spending a year trying to stay ahead of the encroaching war, only to eventually have no place left to go but back to the Fort of Nine Towers.

After the end of World War II, Hans and his family flee to Bolivia to start over.

So many people have stepped on land mines, so many have gotten hurt by war, have lost their families, fled their homes.

7 — 12): John, a boy from rural southern Sudan, and Martha, from the city of Juba, both become separated from their families and are forced to flee from armies during the Sudan Civil War of 1983 — 2005.

Suffering a strange disorder that causes her to hear a «stream of chatter,» Anna flees her intolerable marriage with her sweet and resilient six - year - old daughter, Lena, traveling from Alaska to Maine, only to be tracked down by her vicious, ambitious husband, who escalates their violent family conflict into a war of cosmic proportions.

Quiet, intense nostalgia permeates the fictional Rama's recollection of her family's life in Syria before war forced them to flee and start over in another country.

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In Syria, the war has driven many to flee the country in search of safe refuge, and not every family can bring their furry pals along.

San Pedro Day (Dia De San Pedro or The Day of St Peter) is observed on June 27th every year and celebrates the first group of families who fled from the Caste War in Yucatan Mexico and made Ambergris Caye their home around 1847.

Using old family photos, she recontextualizes the way they are experienced as objects by rephotographing them and reframing the originals, alluding to the displacement her mother's family experienced after fleeing Soviet - occupied Poland after World War II.

His family fled west in 1945 as the Russian Army advanced and ended up in East Germany at the end of World War II.

He fled with his family to Thuringia in 1945, [2] during the expulsion of Germans after World War II.

As the Second World War ended, Polke's family fled to East Germany, and then to West Germany in 1953.

Barrada's photographic work, featuring her home town Tangier, maps out the border crossings - a symbol of hope for many families fleeing the violence of war.

Born in Seoul in 1932, he and his family were forced to flee South Korea and go to America during the Korean War.

Lê was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960 and settled in the United States in 1975, after fleeing Vietnam with her family during the final year of the war.

Lê fled Vietnam with her family as a teenager in 1975, the final year of the war, eventually settling in the United States as a political refugee.

Investigating moments and memories from the artist's own life in Europe after his family fled Vietnam in the wake of the war during the mid-1970's, his pieces move between assembled objects (documents, photos and journals) from participants in various parts of the war era, other iterations and moments of conflict and co-existence between Asia and the West, and his own memories and experiences.

At the end of World War II, Polke and his family fled to East Germany and, in 1953, escaped to Düsseldorf, where he was trained as a glass painter and subsequently studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Having fled the Ethiopian - Somali War with her family in 1977 to settle in Michigan, the artist provides a reassuring reminder of America's historic role in giving sanctuary to those in need.

Haidar's family fled their native Lebanon during the war in 1982, leaving their home and belongings behind.

Born in 1938, the artist fled to East Germany with her family during the Second World War before eventually abandoning Europe altogether and settling in the United States in 1948.

Families of 10 packed into sweltering lean - tos made from sticks and cloth, many of them fleeing either war or drought, Somalia's twin killers that have sent more than 20 percent of the country's population on the run.

The conversation centres around themes of family reunification, refugee integration, and whether Canada is doing enough to maintain its reputation as a place that welcomes those fleeing war and persecution.