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Yuriy Norshteyn Hedgehog in the Fog (1975), one of the director's most widely known works Yuriy Norshteyn was born to a Jewish family in the village of Andreyevka, Penza Oblast, during his parents' World War II evacuation.
Ida VosIn Rotterdam, she experienced the German bombardment of the city in May 1940, after which her family moved to Rijswijk (near The Hague).
Eliahu GatIn 1926, the family resettled in Poland, where Gat attended a Polish gymnasium.
Andrej NikolaidisIn 1992, following the breakout of ethnic strife in Bosnia that soon evolved into an all out war, Nikolaidis' family moved to the Montenegrin town of Ulcinj, his father's hometown where he owns a summer home.
Moshe KatsavHis family brought him to Tehran when he was an infant ; in June 1951, when he was five, they emigrated to Israel.
Georges Fenech Born to a Maltese father and Italian mother in Sousse in Tunisia, in 1963 Fenech's family was repatriated in France, where they settled in Givors.
Vadim AlexeevHe is Jewish, and emigrated to Israel in 1992.
Ignatius Paul Pollaky Faustin Betbeder (1874) Pollaky was born in Pressburg, Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia).
Angelo Heilprin Angelo Heilprin arrived in the United States from the Austrian Empire with his father Michael and his brother Louis in 1856.
Adriana AltarasDue to political persecution she escaped Zagreb, with her mother, in 1964.
Boris Petrovich PolevoyBoris received a health-based draft deferment, and spent a few months teaching school in Western Siberia and advising East Kazakhstan Provincial government, until he was finally drafted by the Army in March 1942.
Irena Sibley Her mother Anele and father Zenonas Pauliukonis fled communist-occupied Lithuania in 1946 when Irena was a baby.
David ElazarHe immigrated to Palestine in 1940 with the Youth Aliyah program and settled on kibbutz Ein Shemer.
Yidele Horowitz In 1947, Rabbi Horowitz settled in Mandatory Palestine, first in Tel Aviv where he was befriended by the Chazon Ish, and then in Jerusalem, where he came to be highly respected by Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, the head of the Edah Charedis.
Petr Shelokhonov Petr Shelokhonov was born in 1929, in Belarus, then a part of the Soviet Union ; Petr Shelokhonov survived the Nazi occupation during World War II.
Octavio CisnerosHe studied under the Piarist Fathers as a child and, while a high school student in October 1961, came to the United States as a political refugee as part of Operation Peter Pan.
Ernst Falkbeer Born in Brünn, a town that in 1819 belonged to the Habsburg ian Austria, and which today is known as Brno in the Czech Republic, Falkbeer moved to Vienna to study law, but ended up becoming a journalist.
John Singer (homeschooler)His parents, who were German immigrants, returned to Dresden in 1932 where his father was a Nazi and joined the Schutzstaffel.
Tahounia RubelIn 1991, Rubel moved to Israel with her family under the widely known immigration drive called'' Operation Solomon'', and settled in Jerusalem.
Peter Maffay Born in Braşov, Romania, the son of a German (Transylvanian Saxon), he was 14 when his family relocated to his parents' (West) Germany in 1963.
Mykhaylo KomanKoman was born in a village of Ľubotín (Lemkivshchyna), Czechoslovakia (today in Slovakia), but when he was six in 1934 his family moved to the city of Sevlyush (Great Vineyard).
Bernard LeachHe is regarded as the'' Father of British studio pottery'' Leach was born in Hong Kong, but spent his first years in Japan, until his father moved back to Hong Kong in 1890.
Shimon Ohayon Born in Morocco, Ohayon immigrated to Israel with his family in 1956.
Walter Bodmer Bodmer's father was Jewish so the family were obliged to leave Germany in 1938 and settled in Manchester.
Mahdis KeshavarzKeshavarz parents immigrated to the United States from Iran in 1979.
Wolf Koenig Koenig emigrated to Canada from Germany with his family in 1937, when they fled Nazi Germany.
Moshe WolmanHe immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1925.
Haya Harareet Haya Harareet was born in Haifa, in the British Mandate of Palestine, and began her career in Israeli films with Hill 24 Does n't Answer (1955).
G. M. DimitrovHis family, along with practically all Bulgarians of Eastern Thrace, was forced to move to Bulgaria in 1913 after the Balkan Wars, and settled in the village of Doyrentsi in Lovech Province.
David McCalden McCalden emigrated to the United States and arrived in California in 1978.
Norman ManeaHe returned to Romania in 1945 with the surviving members of his family and graduated with high honors from the high school (liceu) Stefan cel Mare (Stephan the Great) in his home town, Suceava.
Frank Knopfelmacher He was born into an upper middle class Czech Jewish family in Vienna, and enjoyed a happy childhood until the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938.
Lev ShestovBorn in Kiev (Russian Empire) on, he emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the October Revolution.
Daniel RosolioWhen the kibbutz was evacuated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he moved to the north of Israel and was amongst the founders of kibbutz Kabri and lived there until his death.
Yehuda Kahane Yehuda Kahane was born in 1944 in Jerusalem, Israel (Palestine at that time), His childhood passed in Talpiot, a southern neighborhood of Jerusalem (some 3 km from Beth-Lehem), His parents emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Palestine in the late 1920s.
Yohanan Friedmann Friedmann was born in Zákamenné, Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1949.
Ibrahim Hazimeh In 1948, he and his family suffered expulsion and they lived in Lebanon and Lattakia, Syria as refugees.
Ezriel Carlebach He studied at two yeshivot in Lithuania.
Bob SedergreenIn 1947, His Majesty's government sent the P&O steam ship Ortranto to evacuate all British families, as the British Mandate was coming to an end and Palestine would finally become Israel.
Alice WolfHer parents, Frederick (Fritz) and Renee Koerner, fled Nazi persecution in 1938, bringing the family to Brighton, Massachusetts.
Robert L. PetersRobert's family moved to Europe in 1957, where he grew up as a third culture kid, schooled bilingually in Frankfurt, Germany and Basel, Switzerland.
Aharon Harel Born in Pinsk in Poland (today in Belarus), Harel made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1935.
Joseph Ginat Joseph Ginat was a Sabra, a Jew born in Palestine before Israel was created on May 14, 1948.
Eliezer Jaffe Jaffe initially came to Israel from the United States in 1957 as a volunteer in the immigrant transient camp (ma'abara) in Jerusalem.
Jean-Claude Killy Killy was born in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris, during the Nazi occupation of World War II, but was brought up in Val-d'Isère in the Alps, where his family had relocated in 1945 following the war.
Shimon Garidi Born in Dhamar in the Ottoman Empire (today in Yemen), Garidi made aliyah to Palestine in 1920.
Edgard Var?seAfter being reclaimed by his parents in the late 1880s, in 1893 young Edgard was forced to relocate with them to Turin, Italy, in part, to live amongst his paternal relatives, since his father was of Italian descent.
Yehiel Lasri Lasri was born in Morocco and made aliyah to Israel in 1963 when his family moved to Ashdod.
Daniel HillelHis family immigrated to Palestine in 1931.
Kyra VayneShe was born Kyra Knopmuss in St Petersburg just before the Revolution, and in 1924 the family fled to London.
Meir ArgovIn 1927 he immigrated to Mandate Palestine and worked in agriculture.
Bernard B. Fall Born in Vienna, Austria, to Jewish parents Leo Fall and Anna Seligman, Bernard Fall and his family migrated in 1938 when he was a child to live in France, when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany.
Erna FurmanIn 1938, after Germany's annexation of Austria, when she was twelve years old, her family having Czech citizenship fled to the region formerly known as Czechoslovakia to escape the Nazis.
David SeymourIn 1914 Chim and his parents emigrated to Odessa just as World War I had begun.
Alexander BerkmanBerkman was born in Vilna in the Russian Empire (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania) and emigrated to the United States in 1888.
Marija GimbutasA year after the birth of their first daughter, Danutė, in June 1942, the young Gimbutas family fled the country in the wake of the Soviet re-occupation, first to Vienna and then to Innsbruck and Bavaria.
Avraham OfekBorn in Burgas, Bulgaria, he immigrated to Israel in 1949, where he lived in Ein Hamifratz, a kibbutz near Haifa.
Gerda Weissmann Klein In May 1945, Gerda was liberated by forces of the United States Army in Volary, Czechoslovakia ; these forces included Lieutenant Kurt Klein, who was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States to escape Nazism.
Milla JovovichIn 1980, when Milla was five years old, her family left the Soviet Union for political reasons and moved to London.
Wenzel Hablikthumbnail | left |'' Große bunte utopische Bauten'' ('' Big colorful utopian constructions''), 1922 Hablik was born in Brüx, Bohemia (now the city of Most in the Czech Republic).
Peter W. SchrammHis father fled with their family to America during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, explaining to his 10 year old son,'' We were born Americans, but in the wrong place.''
Sigmund Freud Amalia Freud | Amalia, in 1903 Freud was born to Jewish Galician parents in the Moravia n town of Příbor (), Austrian Empire, now part of the Czech Republic, the first of their eight children.
Joe Koenig Joe Koenig emigrated to Canada from Germany with his family in 1937, when they fled Nazi Germany.
Joseph SzigetiShe was born in Russia and had been stranded by the Russian Revolution of 1917 with her sister at a finishing school in Geneva.
Haim Yosef ZadokIn 1935 he immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine and joined the Hagana and the Jewish Settlement Police.
Janice Biala Biala immigrated to the U. S. in 1913, arriving with her mother and brother, Jacob.
Ivan KakovitchAn ethnic Assyrian, Ivan's family fled the Assyrian homeland in Iraq, during the Simele massacre of August 1933.
Shlomo KaloIn 1949, at the age of 21 he immigrated to Israel.
Yochanan SoferIn 1950, after the last Jew had left Erlau, Sofer immigrated to Israel together with his yeshiva.
Meir WilchekHe survived, and immigrated to Israel in 1949 with his mother and sister.
Haim Laskov Laskov was born in Barysaw in what had just become the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (present-day Belarus) and emigrated to Palestine with his family in 1925.
Shlomo MintzIn 1959, at the age of two, his family immigrated to Israel, where he studied with Ilona Feher, one of the last representatives of the Central European Violin School.
Shien Biau WooHe fled the communist revolution in 1949 with his parents and came to the United States at the age of 18 from Hong Kong.
Michael Salcman The son of Holocaust survivors, he was born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, and came to the United States in 1949.
Idel Ianchelevici Born to Jew ish parents in Leova, Bessarabia, he left Romania for Belgium in 1928 to devote himself entirely to his passion for sculpture and drawing.
Mohammed Miari Miari was born during the Mandate era in al-Birwa, a village which was depopulated as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Avraham HerzfeldIn 1914 he immigrated to Ottoman Palestine and worked as an agricultural laborer in Petah Tikva.
Eitan LivniHis family moved to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1925 and settled in Tel Aviv.
Zivia LubetkinShe herself immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1946.
Anton Cermak Born in Kladno, Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic), Cermak emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1874.
Menahem SternIn 1938 he immigrated to Palestine with his parents via Vienna.
Juliusz Karol KunitzerHis family had roots in German burgher society, and moved to the Polish territories in the 1830s His father, Jakub, a weaver by profession, died in 1850, after which Juliusz with his mother moved to Tyniec.
Rudolf Leopold Leopold was born on March 1, 1925, in Vienna, and said in interviews that he had escaped conscription by the Nazis by hiding in a small village in a remote part of Austria.
Ilia Chavchavadze left | thumb | Chavchavadze in 1st Gymnasium of Tbilisi, 1848 Ilia Chavchavadze was born in Kvareli, a village located in the Alazani Valley, in the Kakheti province of Georgia, which was part of the Russian Empire at that time.
Arno Allan PenziasSome time later, his parents also fled Nazi Germany for the U. S., and the family settled in the Garment District of New York City in 1940.
Robert FruchtIn 1908, Frucht's family moved from Brno (now in the Czech Republic), where he was born, to Berlin.
Fernand Bonnier de La ChapelleHe was born in Algiers and studied at the Lycée Stanislas in Paris after France's surrender to Nazi Germany on June 22, 1940.
Sergiu Comissiona He fled the Communist regime in 1959 and emigrated to Israel.
Kazimierz PlaterBorn into an aristocratic family in Vilnius, he studied in Warsaw where he won the Warsaw County Championship in 1934.
Yosef Haim BrennerBrenner immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1909.
J?drzej GiertychHis family later moved to Petrograd where they experienced the Russian Revolution, returning to Poland in 1918 after the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Mazyar KeshvariMazyar Keshvari and his family left Iran in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution because his family had ties to the Shah, and emigrated to Norway in 1986, eventually settling in Oslo.
Ahmed Jabari Jabari was born to a respected activist family based in the Shuja'iyya district of Gaza City in 1960, that was forced to leave Hebron due to a family blood feud.
Ahron DaumIn 1987 he accepted the post of Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, at that time the largest and most prestigious Jewish Community of West Germany.
Ursula MerkinIn 1933, at the age of fourteen, she left Germany with her family for Palestine.
Gisella Groszthumb | Gisella Grosz, about 1910 Grosz was born into a Jewish family in Szilágysomlyó, then Austria-Hungary, today Șimleu Silvaniei, Romania.
Martin FabiAfter his father was killed in World War II, the family fled to Austria in 1944.
Levon Ter-PetrosyanHis family emigrated to Soviet Armenia in 1946.
Yosef Haim Brenner Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, -LSB- -LSB- David Ben-Gurion, Yosef Haim Brenner ; standing -- A. Reuveni, Jacob Zerubavel (1912) -RSB- -RSB- Brenner was born to a poor Jewish family in Novi Mlini, Russian Empire.
Jan KarskiHe was married in 1965 to the 54 year old dancer and choreographer, Pola Nirenska, a Polish Jew, whose family (with the exception of her parents, who emigrated to Israel shortly before the Nazi invasion of Poland) died in the Holocaust.