The American Jewish Committee has come out against President Donald Trump’s new executive order banning travel to the United ...

They sailed into Shanghai in July 1939 during the worst of the summer heat, finding a patchwork city of 4 million people throbbing with rickshaws, beggars, opium dens and malaria. For Gerd "Jerry ...

The Japanese army forced Jewish refugees into one working-class district, Hongkou, leading to crowded, unsanitary conditions in which disease spread rapidly. "Two bedrooms. Ten people living there ...

A PHOTO of displaced Iraqi Jews in 1951. The government hopes to give a voice to the story of the millions of Jewish refugees (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Seventy-five years ago this month ...

About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

OSWEGO, N.Y. — During World War II, nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees who had escaped the Holocaust were brought to the United States and given safe haven at an Army post in Upstate New York.

More than 80 years after Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai during World War II, an exhibition in New York City shines a light on their experiences, which, experts and advocates say, carries ...

It is especially appropriate that I was there for HIAS’ seventh annual Refugee Shabbat, observed from Friday, Feb. 28, to Saturday, March 1, to recognize the major impact of the global Jewish ...