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1/10 During the Holocaust, European Jews cried out to the world for help, desperate to escape Nazi persecution. Without legal protection, their lives hung in the balance. Some were granted refuge in foreign countries. Most found nowhere to turn. #WorldRefugeeDay 
2/10 When thousands of Polish Jewish refugees arrived in Kobe, Japan, in 1940–41, the small Jewish community there coordinated a massive refugee relief effort.
3/10 A group of Polish Jewish children, mainly orphans, found temporary refuge in the Soviet Union. About 1,000 of them were later evacuated to Tehran, Iran.
