Famous Refugees in Our Countries... by Olga Martins https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees en-us 2017-06-10 15:15:25 UTC 2026-03-23 23:48:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/131333617/6bc13663adfc619babd5e489c491b374/Erasmus_FarAwayCloseAnyway.jpg CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN, a Famous Refugee in PORTUGAL. olgacarvalhomartins https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/175954430 Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1869-1955) was a business man, art collector and philanthropist of Armenian origin, born in the Ottoman Empire.
During World War II Calouste Gulbenkian initially stayed in France but decided in April 1942 to seek refuge in Portugal.

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]]> 2017-06-10 15:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/175954430 From Italy to USA https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184660254 RODOLFO VALENTINO
He was an Italian actor naturalized American who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik. He was an early pop icon, a sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known as the "Latin lover" or simply as "Valentino"

]]> 2017-09-05 08:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184660254 From Italy to Egypt https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184663659 GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI
A famous talian poet, founder of the Hermetic movement, that brought about reorientation in modern Italian poetry.  He was born on February 8, 1888, to Italian parents, Antonio and Maria Ungaretti, in Alexandria, Egypt. Ungaretti’s parents had emigrated from an area near Lucca, Italy, to Egypt, where his father, who was employed at the Suez Canal site, contracted an illness that was to lead to his death in 1890. The Ungarettis had opened a bakery in the Arab quarter of the city, however, and Maria Ungaretti, after her husband’s death, continued this business quite successfully. He left Alexandria in 1912, at the age of twenty-four, to travel to Italy and then to Paris.]]> 2017-09-05 08:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184663659 From Camerun to Italy https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184669827 OTTO BITJOKA, born in Cameroon but has spent the last 30 years in Italy as an economist and entrepreneur. He is  the founder of the Ethnoland Foundation and vice-president of Extrabanca, Italy’s first bank for immigrants.

]]> 2017-09-05 09:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184669827 PRIMO LEVI in Italy https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184684990 Primo Levi, a famous was a Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor of Jewish origin. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and his unique work, The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written.

]]> 2017-09-05 10:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184684990 Luciano Violante from Etyopia to Italy https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184686784 He is an Italian judge and politician, Member of Parliament since 1979. He is particularly interested in questions of justice, the struggle against the Mafia and institutional reform.
Luciano Violante was born in Dire Daua (Ethiopia). His father, a journalist and Communist, was forced to emigrate to Ethiopia by the fascist regime. His family was interned by the British in a concentration camp, where Violante was born and remained until 1943.]]> 2017-09-05 10:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184686784 Alfie Nze from Niger to Italy https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184689333 He is a Nigerian playwright, actor and director based in Milan. He was born in Ekwe, ma village in Imo State, Nigeria, in 1972. He moved to Italy in 1990s.
Devil comes to Koko is a film by him, a voyage through the historic memory of Alfie Nze. It is also the story of two brutal incidents that occurred in Nigeria, through the director’s eyes: the bloody British invasion of Benin City in 1897, and the 1987 dumping of toxic waste in Koko, a village in the Niger Delta.]]> 2017-09-05 11:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/184689333 ILSE LOSA, a Famous Refugee in PORTUGAL olgacarvalhomartins https://padlet.com/olgacarvalhomartins/famousrefugees/wish/193131912 Ilse Losa was a Portuguese writer and translator, author of children’s literature, who was born in a village near Hanover, Germany, on 20 March 1913, and died on 6 January 2006 in Porto.

When she was about 16 years old the family had financial difficulties: after the death of her father, the money was not enough for the family expenses. The young woman then left to London to learn a perfect English. There she took care of children and attended a school.

After her return to Germany, Adolf Hitler's supporters began to dominate the country. She tried to study and work in Berlin, but as a Jew she had to flee the country to avoid being taken to a concentration camp. In 1934, in the middle of World War II, she took refuge in Portugal and settled down in Porto, acquiring the Portuguese nationality.

In 1943, the year in which her first daughter, Margarida Lieblich Losa was born, she published her first book “O Mundo em que Vivi” ("The World I Lived in") that portrays the wartime environment, in her childhood, in Germany, and since then she dedicated her life to children's literature and translation of infant-juvenile books, having been awarded in 1984 with the Gulbenkian Grand Prix for her whole work dedicated to children.

Her narrative and poetic work, essentially published in the 1950s, focuses on autobiographical retrospective, evoking childhood and adolescence, as an experience overshadowed by the breakdown of innocence and unity brought about by the experience of Nazi horror and the loss of homeland.                                                                     Maria Carolina Cruz
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