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Famous Refugees
Test your knowledge of the contribution that refugees can make to any country who gives them hostage.
Choose a name from the left column — and try to match it with the correct description.

 

1

Isabel Allende

A

Actress and refugee from Nazi Germany

2

Sitting Bull

B

Artist. Fled Paris in 1938 in the face of advancing Nazism

3

Jackie Chan

C

As a child she fled from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands

4

Jesus Christ

D

Austrian Jew, founded psychoanalysis, he fled from Nazism in Austria

5

Marlene Dietrich

E

Author and Guatamalan refugee who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992

6

Jelena Dokic

F

Business Development Director, lawyer and 1998 Young Australian of the Year. Vietnamese refugee.

7

Albert Einstein

G

Chilean author who fled after receiving death threats folloing the overthrow of her father's cousin

8

Anne Frank

H

Due to his political beliefs, he was forced to flee France several times

9

Sigmund Freud

J

Fled from Hong Kong to the United States after being threatened with death by the Triads

10

Victor Hugo

K

Fled from Jamaica to Miami after being shot during political violence.

11

Sir Hans Krebs

L

Fled from Mecca to Medina in 577

12

Vladimir Lenin

M

Fled with his family from Israel because of persecution by King Herod

13

Bob Marley

N

Medical scientist and Australian of The Year 2000. Austrian Jew, fled to Australia in 1939.

14

Rigoberta Menchu

P

Nobel Prize-winning scientist and German-Jewish refugee

15

Piet Mondrian

Q

Sioux chief. Left America for Canada

16

Sir Gustav Nossal

R

Soviet leader and a refugee who fled to Switzerland

17

Le Tan

S

Tennis player and Serbian refugee

18

Muhammad

T

World-famous scientist and Jewish refugee from Germany

 
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