credit to the nation - Amnesty International · Amnesty International credit to the nation plAyIng cArds ... The winner is the player with the most cards. reFUGee PairS 2 or more

Amnesty International credit to the nation plAyIng cArds

Amnesty International UK, Human rights Action centre

17-25 new Inn yard, london Ec2A 3EA

Tel 020 7033 1500 www.amnesty.org.uk/education

credit to the nation A human rights pack of cards - highlighting 68 people who came to Britain as refugees and went on to make great contributions to the country that gave them protection when they needed it.

A set of information cards show:• how to play five games, from refugee snap to ‘Top Trumps’• for teachers, how to use the cards in classroom Activities

Text and portraits by dan Jones, 2007

aMneStY internationaLis a movement of ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights. Our purpose is to protect individuals wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.

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Games to playOn two cards are instructions showing how to play five different card games with credit to the nation cards. A third card explains how to use the cards in a class activity.

reFUGee SnaP2 or more playersAll the cards are in a pile face down in the middle of the table.One player turns over the top card in the pile so that it is face up.Then the next card is turned over quite quickly, then the next card, then the next.If a player sees a match between something on the top card and something on the previous card (e.g. they are both from Uganda or they were both in prison or they are both musicians) they shout out ‘refugee snap!’ The first one to shout wins all the cards that have been turned over, but only if they can show a match between the two top cards.If they are wrong, then any cards that they have won are returned to the bottom of the pile. The winner is the player who has won the most cards.

FirSt arriVaL(A variation of rEFUgEE snAp)The cards are placed face down in a central pile. One player begins to turn them over face up quite quickly. If any player thinks that the person➤

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sfeatured on the top card came to the UK as a refugee before the person in the previous card, they shout out “First arrival”.If on examination this proves to be true, then they win all the cards in the pile.If it proves not to be true then any cards they won are handed back to go to the bottom of the pile.The winner is the player with the most cards.

reFUGee PairS2 or more playersEach player is dealt eight cards face down. The remaining cards are in a pile in the middle of the tableThe aim of the game is to get rid of all your cards as matching pairs.you could have two professors, two refugees from Austria or two footballers.The players take turns round a circle. When it is your turn, you can either place a pair of cards face up on the table or put two cards that you don’t want face down on the table next to the pile and pick two new cards from the pile. The winner is the first person to get rid of all their cards

Patienceone player The cards can be sorted into a TIME lInE based on the date of arrival in the UK or in an Alphabetical Order based on the first letter of the last name.

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reFUGee toP trUMPS2 or more players

scores are allocated to different categories by life achievements

Winning the nobel prize 8 points

Becoming a prince or president 7 points

World famous musician 6 points

Becoming a millionaire 6 points

Becoming a lord or Archbishop 6 points

playing sport for your country 5 points

Inventor 5 points

Elected Fellow of the royal society 4 points

Top fashion model 4 points

doctor 4 points

Best selling writer 3 points

professor or Judge 3 points

Artist, actor, dancer, architect 3 points

Elected to parliament 2 points

Human rights campaigner 2 points

revolutionary 1 point

All the cards are placed face down in a pile.

Each player picks up a card in turn and reads it to themselves.➤

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Then players then bid with the card that they

think has the highest score and places it face up on the table

A top fashion model outranks a professor. But a professor who has also won a nobel prize and is also a Fellow of the royal society outranks an Archbishop who was also a judge.

The highest scorer wins all the cards in the round.

When there are no cards left the game is over.

The overall winner is either the one who has won the most cards or the one with the biggest accumulated total score.

The game could also be played by devising other systems of scoring, for example their country of origin or how far they have travelled or the century when they were born.

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classroom activitiesPUrPoSe To examine the concepts of refugees and the human right to asylum by examining some of the contributions that refugees have made and are making to our society in the UK.

What YoU need A set of Credit to the Nation cards. Access to the Internet, encyclopaedias and school library

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aGe SUitabiLitY 10-15

What YoU do1 Choose a card: put all the cards into a hat

or other suitable receptacle and ask each student to pick out one card

2 Research: Each student does some research on the refugee character on their card. They find and copy a picture of their character. They make notes on where their character came from, why they had to flee from their country of origin and their achievements and contributions to our society in the UK.

3 Interviews: students split up into pairs. Each pair organises a role-play. One acts as a journalist interviewing the famous refugee

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sasylum and why this person fled and what they have done in the UK. The interview should not last more than 10 minutes. The roles are then reversed.

4 Articles: Then the ‘journalists’ write up their story with a big headline, a picture and an article of up to 200 words.

5 Display: The articles are put on display and students report back on what it felt like to interview and to be interviewed and anything they found interesting about their refugee.

VariantS1 Presentation to class: students could

present themselves as their character to the class

2 Poster: Working in pairs the class could make a set of A2 posters entitled ‘credit to the nation’. Their poster should include a portrait of their character, a map of their character’s place of origin, a picture representing one of their character’s achievements and a short slogan and statement about their character

3 Assembly: students could select 12 characters for a school assembly and prepare a power point presentation of their portraits and short statements to be read out about the character and their contribution to society.

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The Amadeus String Quartet1947–1987. We were three musicians, Norbert Brainin (1923–2005 leader and first violin), Siegmund Nissel (second violin, 1923–) and Peter Schidloff (viola 1922–1987).

We all fled to the UK in 1938 from Vienna when the nazis took over in Austria.

We started playing music together when we were locked up in British internment camps for ‘enemy aliens’ during the war.

In 1947 the English cellist, Martin Lovett, joined our group. We took Mozart’s christian name for our string Quartet. We were one of the best loved classical quartets in the world.

Frank AuerbachI was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1931.

My Jewish parents sent me to England in 1939 when I was 8 to escape nazi persecution. I never saw them again.

I studied art.

now I have become a famous English painter.


Michael Balint1896 –1970. I was born into a Jewish family in Hungary.

I studied biochemistry and psychiatry.

I became a psychoanalyst. I helped people with mental and emotional difficulties.

In 1937 my wife and I had to escape to london from political persecution in Hungary.

In the UK I worked on marriage problems and how doctors treat patients.

Mary Benson1919–2000. I was born in pretoria, South Africa.

I worked against racism and Apartheid.

I raised funds to defend political prisoners in south Africa.

In 1966 I was arrested and was banned from living in south Africa.

I escaped to England where I started the Africa Bureau.

I wrote books about the African national congress, chief luthuli, Tshekedi Khama and nelson Mandela.


Max Born1882 –1970. I was born in Germany.

I studied physics and Maths.

I became a university professor in göttingen.I studied optics, atomic theory and quantum mechanics.

In 1933 I fled to the UK from nazi persecution because I was a Jew.

I became professor of physics at Edinburgh University and wrote books on science including The Restless Universe. One of the moon’s craters is named after me. In 1954 I won the Nobel Prize for physics.

I campaigned for peace.

Yasmin Alibhai-BrownI am a Muslim woman born in Uganda in 1949.

In 1972 president Idi Amin expelled me.

Tens of thousands of us were thrown out just because we were Asians.

I fled to the UK.

I became a writer, a journalist and a broadcaster.


Edith Bulbring1903 –1990. I was born in Germany.

My mother was Jewish.

I studied chemistry and pharmacology in Berlin.

I had to leave germany in 1934 because of the persecution of the Jews.

I fled to the UK. I studied how muscles work.

I became professor of pharmacology in Oxford University.

I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Montague Burton1885 –1952. I was born in what is now Lithuania.

My original name was Moishe Osinski.

In 1900 my family fled to the UK from persecution of the Jews in russia.

I worked in the clothing industry.

I founded the Montague Burton chain of menswear stores, the biggest in the world.


Ernest Chain1906 –1979. I was born into a russian Jewish chemist’s family in Berlin, Germany.

I read chemistry. I studied enzymes and antibiotics.

In 1933 I fled to the UK from nazi persecution.

In cambridge University, Howard Florey and I worked out how to extract penicillin to use as medicine.

For this we won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1945.

I became professor of biochemistry in Imperial college.

Joseph Conrad1857 –1924. My family was polish and lived in Ukraine.

In those days my name was Josef Korzeniowski.

We were exiled to northern russia in 1861 for political reasons.

I became a merchant seaman.

I escaped to England in 1886.

I became a writer of famous books in English including Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo and The Secret Agent.


Jean Theophile Desaguliers1683 –1744. I was born in la rochelle, France.

My Huguenot family fled from religious persecution to guernsey in 1694.

I studied at Oxford University and became a scientist and inventor.

I worked with Isaac newton. I invented an air pump to ventilate the House of commons.

I made fire engines and dredgers. I designed diving bells. I became a leading Freemason. I was a Fellow of the royal society.

Andre Deutsch1917-2000. I was born in Hungary.

Our family went to live in Austria.

In 1938 we fled from Vienna to the UK when the nazis annexed Austria.

In England I started a publishing company.

I published hundreds of books in over 30 years.


Waris DirieI was born in Somalia in 1965.

I fled to the UK to escape political oppression and a forced marriage.

I worked in london as a cleaner.

I was spotted by a photographer and, like my friend Iman, another somali refugee, I became a top fashion model.

I wrote a book called Desert Flower.

I am the UN Ambassador for Women’s Rights in Africa.

Omid DjaliliI am a Bahai by faith. I was born in london in 1965.

My family is from Iran.

My family fled from Tehran to the UK after the Iranian revolution in 1979.

I am an actor, writer and satirist.

I am a film star and a prizewinning stand-up comedian.


John Dollond telescope lens1706 –1761. My family were Huguenot protestants living in France.

We fled to England to escape persecution.

I became a silk weaver in spitalfields, East london, and an inventor.

My son peter and I developed the achromatic telescope lens. We made our lenses using two different types of glass.

This lessened the prism effect that distorts what you see through a telescope.

We set up the opticians firm dollond and Aitchison.

Philip, Duke of EdinburghI was born in Greece in 1921.

My father was prince Andrew, the crown prince. In 1924 there was a coup. The monarchy was abolished. We escaped.

I went to school in England.

I was a sailor in the royal navy. I fought in the Mediterranean and pacific.

In 1947 I married princess Elizabeth who became Queen of England.

In 1954 I started the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme for young people. I am president of the World Wildlife Fund.


Carlos Fortin I was born in Chile in 1940. I studied economics and became a university teacher.

In 1973 general pinochet took over my country in a military coup.

I fled to England.

I became a professor of economics in sussex University, teaching and researching the economics of development.

In 1998 the United nations asked me to run the conference on Trade and development (UNCTAD).

Anna Freud 1895 –1982. I was born in Austria. I was the youngest daughter of sigmund Freud.

I became a child psychoanalyst in Vienna.

I fled to london with my father in 1938 when the nazis took over Austria.

In london I developed my work with children.

I ran orphanages. I worked with children damaged by war and deprivation.

I gave lectures on child psychology. I organised child psychoanalysts.


Lucian FreudI was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922.

I am the grandson of sigmund Freud.

I escaped with my family from nazi germany in 1932.

I went to art school and started to paint professionally.

I have become a leading British painter.

Sigmund Freud1856 –1939. I was born in what is now the Czech Republic.

I lived most of my life in Austria.

I studied medicine.

I did research on cocaine, the nervous system, psychiatry, dreams, hysteria and how the unconscious mind works.

I developed a method of treatment called psychoanalysis.

In 1938 I had to escape from nazi anti-semitism to become a refugee in london.


Dennis Gabor1900 –1979. I was born gabor denes in Budapest, Hungary.

I studied to become an electrical engineer.I worked in germany and invented the mercury vapour lamp. In 1933 I had to flee to the UK from nazi persecution.

I developed holography and made 3d pictures with light. I invented flat tube colour television and the holographic microscope.

I became professor of Applied Electron physics at Imperial college. In 1971 I was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics.

Karen Gershon 1923 –1993. I was born in Bielefeld Germany.

In 1938 my sisters and I escaped from nazi anti-semitism.

We travelled to london as children on a rescue train (Kindertransport) organised by nicholas Winton.

I became a writer, the author of 6 books of poetry, 3 novels and 3 non-fiction books including writing about my experiences as a refugee.


Gilberto GilI was born in Brazil in 1942.

I became a musician, singer and composer. My friend Caetano Veloso and I developed Bossa Nova (new Wave) music.

We mixed latin American samba and salsa with jazz and rock and roll.

When the military took over our country we were jailed for our Tropicalia music, our electric guitars, long hair and our political ideas.

caetano and I fled to london in England in 1969.

now I am Brazil’s Minister of culture.

Hugo Gryn1928 –1996. I was born in Berehovo, now in the Ukraine.

during the war my family was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp.

In 1945 I arrived in the UsA with hundreds of other child survivors of the Holocaust.

I moved to England and became a reform Jewish Rabbi, and a broadcaster on radio 4’s Thought for the Day and The Moral Maze programmes.

I wrote Chasing Shadows and other books.


Paul Hamlyn1926 – 2001. I was born in Germany.

In 1936 my family fled to England to escape nazi persecution.

I started a major publishing company. I became a multimillionaire.

I was made a Lord.

I set up the Hamlyn Foundation and gave most of my money to charity.

I gave 12,000 books to the British library.

Mona HatoumI was born in a palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1952.

In 1972 I fled to the UK when war broke out in my country.

I studied to become an artist. I work in video, sculpture and installations.

My work is often about violence, oppression and the human body.

My work is shown in the Tate Modern. I was shortlisted for the Turner prize. I am considered one of the leading British modern artists.


Friedrich von Hayek1889 –1992. I grew up in Austria.

I taught economics in Vienna University.

I fled from nazi oppression to the UK in 1938.

I taught at the london school of Economics.

I was a libertarian economist. I argued for the free market and against the ideas of John Maynard Keynes.

In 1974 I won the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Victor Hugo1802 –1885. I was born in France.

I became a writer.

I wrote famous plays, poetry and historical novels.

I wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

I was elected to the French parliament.

When napoleon III became Emperor in 1852, I fled to the UK because of my republican views.

I lived in guernsey in the channel Islands where I wrote Les Miserables.


Alec Issigonis1906 –1988. I was born in a greek community in smyrna, Turkey.

In 1923, after the First World War, my family fled from the oppression that was taking place against the greek minority.

First we went to Malta, then to the UK. I studied motor engineering and became a car designer.

I designed the Mini cooper in 1959, also the Morris Minor and the Austin 1100.

Emmanuel JalI was born in southern Sudan around 1980.

My father fought in the rebel army, the splA. When I was 7 my mother died.

I fled to Ethiopia. I was recruited as a child soldier.

After 5 years of danger and starvation, I escaped to Kenya.

I started school. I wrote poetry about my life. I began to sing. As a singer/songwriter I used my voice to work for peace and to campaign against the arms trade. I came to the UK.

I have made top-selling hip-hop records such as War Child and Ceasefire.


Eva JiricnaI was born in 1948 in what is now Slovakia.

I studied architecture.

When the russian Army invaded my country in 1968, I escaped to the UK.

I am a leading British architect. I have a CBE and I am a Royal Academician.

I designed the lloyds Building in the city of london and part of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

I designed the Jubilee line station at canada Water in london.

Bernard Katz1911–2003. I was born to russian Jewish parents in leipzig, Germany.

I studied medicine at leipzig University.

We fled to the UK from nazi persecution in 1935.

I became professor of biophysics in University college, london.

I studied how nerves and muscles work.

I became a Fellow of the royal society.

In 1970 I won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.


Judith KerrIn 1923 I was born in Berlin, Germany.

In 1930 my family fled from Hitler’s germany. First we went to switzerland, then london.

In the war I worked for the red cross.

I went to art school. I worked for the BBc and became a writer and illustrator of many children’s books, including the Mog the Cat series.

My book, The Tiger who Came to Tea, sold 2 million copies. I also wrote When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, a story of our escape from the nazis.

Arthur Koestler1905 –1983. I was born in Hungary.

I became a journalist, a critic and a novelist.

In the spanish civil War I was captured by Franco’s troops. I was nearly executed.

In 1942 I was put in prison in France for my ideas.

I escaped to Britain in 1943.

I wrote more than 30 books. Darkness at Noon is my best seller.

I campaigned for better prison conditions and against the death penalty. The Koestler Award for prisoners’ art is named after me.


Oscar Kokoschka1886 –1980. I was born in what is now the Czech Republic.

We moved to Vienna. I was interested in drama and became a painter.

I studied art but I was expelled from art school. My work was too controversial. I worked with gustav Klimt and Egon schiele, the Austrian Expressionist painters.

When the nazis took over they said my work was degenerate. I was in danger. In 1938 we fled to polperro in cornwall.

After the war I went back to live in Vienna.

Hans Adolf Krebs1900 –1981. I was born in Hildesheim, Germany.

I studied the chemistry of enzymes and taught biochemistry at Freiburg.

In 1933 the nazis sacked me because I was a Jew. I fled to the UK where I became a biochemistry professor.

I discovered how chemicals are broken down in the cell to produce energy. This process - the Krebs cycle - is named after me.

I won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1953.


Peter Kropotkin1842 –1921. I was born a prince in Russia.

I served in the army. I studied at st petersburg.

I ran the russian Geographical Society. I mapped siberia. I studied glaciation.

I joined the International Working Men’s Association and became an anarchist.

I was jailed for my political ideas in russia and France and expelled from switzerland.

In 1886 I fled to london where I lived for many years giving lectures and writing.

I edited parts of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Rudolf von Laban1879 –1958. I was born in what is now Bratislava, Slovakia.

I was a dancer and choreographer. I studied architecture.

I developed a system for writing down dance steps (Kinetographie Laban).

I set up laban dance schools across Europe.

I worked at the Allied state Theatre in Berlin.

In 1937 I had to flee from nazi persecution.

In the UK I worked on ergonomics. I developed dance education.


Marina LewyckaI was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany, in 1946.

My family were Ukrainian refugees, fleeing to escape the communist takeover of our country.

I grew up in England, became a writer, worked for Age concern and became a teacher of English in sheffield Hallam University.

When I was 59 my novel, A short history of tractors in Ukrainian, was published. It became a best seller.

I have won many literary awards.

Rodrigo Lopez1525 –1594. I was born into a Jewish family in crato, Portugal. I became a convert to christianity.

I studied medicine.

In 1559 I fled from the spanish Inquisition’s persecution of Jewish converts.

I came to london. In 1586 I was appointed as Queen Elizabeth’s physician.

Then there was a plot against me. They said I was planning to poison the Queen. some people were jealous of my success. some hated me for my Jewish origins.

In 1594 I was tried on false charges and executed.


Lomana LuaLuaI was born in Kinshasa, then in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1980.

My father was against the country’s president Mobutu. There were big demonstrations against the government. people were killed and ‘disappeared’.

My dad had death threats. We fled to England, in 1985.

When I was 18 I was signed up as a professional footballer, first for colchester, then for newcastle United and now for portsmouth.

I am Captain of the congo’s national team.

Manubhai MadhvaniI was born in Jinja, Uganda, in 1930.

Our family food business involved brewing and sugar.

In1972 president Idi Amin threw me into jail as a British spy. It was not true.

I was expelled from Uganda along with 80,000 other Asians.

I went to seek refuge in the UK.

now our company has become enormous in the UK and in Uganda.

I am a multimillionaire.


Michael Marks1859 –1907. I was born into a Jewish family in Poland.

There were russian pogroms against Jews so my family fled to England in 1883.

I spoke no English. I had no trade.

I started selling clothes from a market stall in leeds.

I opened a clothing store with my friend, Tom spencer.

We started a company called Marks and spencer. We sold clothes, groceries and household goods.

Today the company is worth £800 million.

Daniel Marot1661–1752. I fled from France when protestants like me were being persecuted.

I was a Huguenot by faith and an architect and designer by trade.

I went to the netherlands and worked for William of Orange. He became the King of England.

He made me Master of Works and brought me to london.


Karl Marx 1818 –1883. I was born in Trier, Germany.

I was interested in philosophy, history, economics and politics. I was the editor of a cologne newspaper, Die Rheinische Zeitung.

In 1843 the authorities closed down the paper because they did not like my revolutionary ideas.

I fled to France and then to England.

I worked in the library of the British Museum. I wrote many books about class, workers’ rights and socialism, some with my friend Freidrich Engels.

My best-selling book is called Das Kapital.

Thabo MbekiI was born in the Eastern cape, South Africa, in 1942.

In 1962 my father, professor govan Mbeki, was jailed on robben Island.

I fled to the UK. I went to sussex University.

I worked with the African national congress in exile.

now I am the President of South Africa.


Cesar Milstein1927-2002. I was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina.

I studied chemistry in the University of Buenos Aires.

In 1960 I fled to England to escape from political oppression. In cambridge I studied how the body’s immune system works.

I did research into the antibodies that fight disease.

This has led to new treatments for rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

I won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1984.

Claus MoserI was born into a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, in 1922.

In 1936 my family escaped to England from nazi persecution.

I served in the rAF. I taught statistics at the london school of Economics and became professor in 1961.

I was the government’s chief statistician.

I was made Chancellor of Keele University and a Lord.

I became chair of the Basic skills Agency.


Rudolf Nureyev1938 –1993. I was born on a train in siberia in Russia.

My mother was a Tartar.

My father was a russian officer.

In 1955 I joined the famous Kirov ballet as a dancer and soon became one of its stars.

In 1961 the Kirov Ballet was on tour in paris. I escaped and asked for political asylum.

I joined the royal Ballet in london and danced with Margot Fonteyn. I made films. I became a ballet director in paris.

I was one of the best male dancers of the century.

Rageh OmaarI was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1967.

My family fled to the UK from the civil war and political chaos in somalia in the early 1980s.

I went to school in cheltenham. I studied at Oxford University.

I became a journalist.

I became a correspondent for the BBc in 1991, and then for Al-Jazeera reporting on many countries in the Middle East and Africa. I wrote a book about the war in Iraq.


Geoffrey OryemaI was born in northern Uganda in 1953.

My father was a politician. Under president Idi Amin’s ‘reign of terror’ in 1977 he was arrested and secretly killed.

I escaped to Kenya hidden in the boot of a friend’s car.

now I have become a famous singer/songwriter. I have recorded many songs in English, French and Acholi.

I sing about conflict, exile and dreams. I have worked with Brian Eno, mixing African music and instruments with rock and jazz.

Dennis Papin1647–1712. I was born in Blois, France.

I was a Huguenot.

I studied medicine.

I fled to England following the religious persecution of protestants.

I became an inventor. I was interested in steam power.

I built the first piston steam engine. I designed a paddle steamer. I invented the first pressure cooker.

I became a Fellow of the Royal Society.


Max Ferdinand Perutz1914 – 2002. I was born in Vienna, Austria.

I studied chemistry in Vienna University.

In 1936 I fled from nazi persecution to the UK.

In the war I was interned as an ‘enemy alien’.

In cambridge University I studied the complex structure of proteins through x-rays.

I became a chemistry professor. My work on haemoglobin molecules won me the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1962.

Camille Pissarro1830 –1903. I was born on the island of St Thomas in the West Indies.

I went to school in France in 1842.

I became a landscape artist, painting from nature.

In 1869 our country was invaded. german soldiers broke into our home in paris and destroyed my paintings and drawings.

I fled to England. I lived and worked in lambeth until 1871.

I joined the Impressionist group of painters when I returned to France.


Karl Popper1902–1994. I was born in Vienna, Austria.

I studied philosophy at Vienna University. I fled fascism in 1938 and went to teach in new Zealand.

In 1945 I became professor of philosophy at the london school of Economics. My ideas have been called ‘logical positivism’.

I wrote books about scientific theory, logic and the history of ideas.

My best-known books are Open Society and its Enemies and The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

Irina RatushinskayaI was born to a russian family in Ukraine in 1954.

I became a christian dissident and a poet.

In 1983 I was imprisoned for publishing poems that were considered ‘anti-soviet’.

I was jailed for 7 years and exiled for 5 more years.

I composed many secret poems in prison. some were smuggled out of jail and published. some were set to music. I have written novels.

When I was released in 1986 I went to live in the UsA and then I moved to England. now I live in Moscow.


Joseph Rotblat1908 – 2005. I was born in a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland.

I worked as an electrician but studied science at night, especially radiology. In 1938 I went to liverpool to study nuclear fission.

The nazis invaded my country in 1939. during the war I worked on the development of the atomic bomb. Then I campaigned against nuclear weapons.

I founded the pugwash conferences for scientists. I helped start the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

I was a professor of physics. I won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.

Andrew SachsI was born in Berlin, Germany in 1930.

My family fled from nazi persecution in 1938 to the UK.

I became an actor.

I played the spanish waiter Manuel in the sitcom Fawlty Towers.

I have played many parts, including dr Watson in Sherlock Holmes and Bertie Wooster in Jeeves on TV, in film and on the radio.

I have starred in many children’s programmes.


John Sentamu I was born in Kampala, Uganda, in 1949.

I studied law in Makerere University and qualified as a lawyer and became a judge.

I quarrelled with the president, Idi Amin. He murdered my friend Archbishop luwum. My life was in danger.

I fled to the UK and studied theology. I became an Anglican priest in Tulse Hill, south london.

Then I became Bishop of stepney, then Bishop of Birmingham.

now I’m Archbishop of York, the second most senior cleric in the church of England.

Georg Solti1912–1997. I was born in Hungary. My Jewish family changed my name to georg solti which didn’t sound so Jewish.

I studied music, particularly the piano, in Budapest. In 1938 I conducted Mozart at the Budapest Opera.

In 1938 my family fled to switzerland to escape the nazis and anti-semitism.

I became a British citizen.

I was one of the world’s leading orchestral conductors. I made many records.


George SorosI was born dzjegdzhe shorash in Budapest, Hungary, in 1930.

My Jewish family survived the Holocaust.

When the soviet Union invaded my country in 1948, I fled to England. I worked as an apple picker, railwayman and waiter, and studied economics.

In 1954 I went to America and became a hugely successful banker.

I made over 2 billion pounds as an investment banker.

since 1980 I have been giving my money away to education, health and refugee projects in 30 countries.

Wole SoyinkaI was born in Ake, Western Nigeria, in 1934.

I studied English literature. I wrote plays, novels, and poetry. I have been called ‘Africa’s finest playwright’.

I was a university professor in Ibadan, Ife, lagos and leeds.

during the civil war in nigeria in 1967, I was imprisoned by the authoritiies for my ideas.

I fled to the UK in 1969 as a refugee.

In 1986 I won the Nobel Prize for literature.


Mario StanicI was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1972.

I loved football.

In 1992 I fled from the war in Bosnia to the UK.

I played football for Bruges Fc (Belgium), then for parma Fc (Italy - we won the UEFA cup).

I represented croatia in the World cup.

I played for chelsea Fc from 2000 to 2004.

Tom StoppardI was born Tomas straussler in Zlin in what is now the Czech Republic in 1937.

When the nazis invaded our country, my Jewish parents fled to singapore. My father was killed in the Japanese invasion.

My mother and I went to India where she married an English soldier, Major stoppard.

I became a jounalist and a playwright. I have written more than 20 plays. I was knighted in 1998.

I have campaigned for human rights and freedom of expression, particularly in Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.


Jules Thorn1899–1980. I was an Austrian businessman. I fled to the UK from Vienna when the nazis took over the country in 1938.

I founded Thorn Electrical Industries ltd, a multimillion pound company trading in electrical goods and in TV and dVd rentals.

I set up the sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust, a major charitable foundation that gives away millions of pounds to good causes.

I was awarded a knighthood.

Sieng Van TranI was born in Vietnam in 1973. My family were ‘boat people’ who fled the country, like hundreds of thousands of others, in leaky boats after the Vietnam War.

My family ended up in a refugee camp in Malaysia for two years. We came to Brent in England when I was 6.

At school and at university I studied computer science.

When I was 25 I set up my own Internet site called I-learn. It offers people hundreds of opportunities for learning skills.

We have become a big educational company.

now I am a millionaire.


George WeidenfeldI was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1919.

I fled from Vienna in 1938 with the rise of nazism and came to the UK.

I worked for the BBc during the war.

I was a journalist for the News Chronicle newspaper.

In 1949 I set up Weidenfeld and nicolson as a major publishing company.

I was made a life peer Lord.

I am a trustee of the national portrait gallery.

Alek WekI was born in a village called Wau in southern Sudan in 1977. Our people are dinka. Our country has been torn apart by civil war for many years.

I decided to escape the conflict with my two sisters. We finally got to the UK. I was 14. They wouldn’t allow my Mum to stay.

After three years of school I went to art college where I was ‘discovered’ by a photographer.

I quickly became a top fashion model. I travel the world. I started a successful business selling handbags and fashion accessories.

I do a lot of charity work, especially for Medecins sans Frontieres.

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