She came to the U.S. after World War II, when she fled Russia on an escape train to Poland, her family said, per the New York Daily News. In 1946, she ended up in the displaced persons camp of ...

Refugees and displaced people often rely on some form of international ... UNHCR was established following World War II to help with the rehousing of the many millions of people who had been ...

About half of these forcibly displaced people are children. In 1951, the UN established the Refugee Convention to protect the rights of refugees in Europe in the aftermath of World War II.

This video delves into the fate of ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe following World War II, focusing on the mass expulsions ...