Hà and
her family flee war - torn Vietnam for the American South.
For example, most cities have refugee resettlement organizations that assist
families fleeing war - torn countries with housing, education, and employment.
Not exact matches
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.