Belgian army. In 1940 the British public was even more sceptical, if not outright hostile to Belgian refugees. The common perception was that Belgium...

1914 and 1918, many Belgian refugees fled to the United Kingdom. Because archive material of the hundreds of local Belgian refugee committees is scant...

take in civilian refugees, but out of fear of anti-German riots and protests among refugees, it was decided to establish guarded refugee camps. The first...

institutions to Belgian refugees. In 1942, the government sponsored the creation of the Belgian Institute in London to entertain the Belgian refugee community...

lethal electric fence along the Belgian-Dutch border which would claim the lives of between 2,000 and 3,000 Belgian refugees trying to escape the occupied...

of the war that: “There were refugees everywhere. As if the whole world had to move or was waiting to do so”. Refugees were generated throughout all...

the Belgian, British and French armies around the fortified city of Antwerp during the First World War. German troops besieged a garrison of Belgian fortress...

Palestinian refugees were registered with the United Nations. In 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East...

An ongoing refugee crisis began in Europe in late February 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Over 6 million refugees fleeing Ukraine are recorded...

of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951. At the outbreak of World War II, Leopold tried to maintain Belgian neutrality...

-0.1206278 The Anglo-Belgian Memorial, also known as the Belgian Gratitude Memorial, Belgian Refugees Memorial, or the Belgian Monument to the British...

problems that the refugees face.  Slovenia – Originally, Slovenia welcomed refugees when in transit to Germany to apply for refugee status. As of September...

1885. During World War I, when some 200 Belgian refugees came to Oxford, the society lent its room to a "Belgian Club". Many famous actors have participated...

experience working as a nurse, ministering to Belgian soldiers during the First World War, and by Belgian refugees who were living in Torquay.: 75–79  The manuscript...

days of fighting in which Belgian forces were pushed back into a small pocket in the north-west of the country, the Belgian military surrendered to the...

Germans invaded Belgium in the fall of 1914 and Paris was flooded with Belgian refugees, she helped to set up the American Hostels for Refugees, which managed...

of Belgian refugees. One was inscribed "FOR KULTUR" in raised letters, another "FOR BRUTALITY." Yet another showed the names of French and Belgian towns...

operations in Belgium also moved westwards as the Belgian army withdrew from Antwerp to the area close to the border with France. The Belgian army fought...

consequence of the sedentarization of Kurdish tribes and the arrival of Muslim refugees and immigrants (mainly Circassians) following the Russo-Circassian War...

medal of a British Hero of the Holocaust. Belgian refugees in Britain during the First World War Jewish refugees from German-occupied Europe in the United...

Belgian-Dutch border and reaching the British secret service in Rotterdam. The Belgian government also kept a post office in the unoccupied Belgian enclave...

The Rape of Belgium was a series of systematic war crimes, especially mass murder and deportation, by German troops against Belgian civilians during the...

the Eastern Front. Belgium was a neutral country and would not accept German forces crossing its territory. Germany disregarded Belgian neutrality and invaded...

and Czechoslovakia. Around 250,000 Belgian refugees came to the UK during World War I; about 90% returned to Belgium soon after the war ended. Agatha Christie's...

Man at the Trafalgar Studios. In 2014, he played Florian Dupont, a Belgian refugee, in the TV series Mr. Selfridge before joining the cast of Coronation...

central Africa known as Mittelafrika, at the expense of the French and Belgian colonies. Presumably to leave open future negotiations with Britain, no...

Commander-in-Chief of the French Army, had concluded from the swift capture of the Belgian fortresses at the Battle of Liège and at the Siege of Namur in 1914 that...

required a limited incursion into the Belgian Ardennes, rather than a full-scale invasion; in September 1911, the Belgian Foreign Minister told a British Embassy...

was announced 4,100 people, including 800 refugees from Germany fled to France. In late 1918, American, Belgian, British, and French troops entered the...

The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, also known as the 1951 Refugee Convention or the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 is a United Nations...