4,000 refugees (Basque children) are welcomed in Southampton May 1937. Would we have let them drown?
Belgian refugees being welcomed at Folkestone in 1915. 16,000 in one day. How things have changed...
Basque refugee children pose for the camera, Stoneham camp, Hampshire in 1937. Photo by Edith Tudor-Hart.
German refugees are retrained as farmers at Hambledon after being given sanctuary in Britain in 1938.
300 traumatised Jewish children, survivors of Nazi concentration camps, were welcomed in the Lake District in 1945. Photo by Kurt Hutton.
Lady Moyra Browne, Superintendent-in-Chief of St John& #39;s Ambulance, welcomes refugees from Uganda on their arrival at Stansted Airport in 1972. Photo by Chris Ware.
Refugees Gabriela and Humberto before their escape from Chile, they were welcomed in Swansea in 1976.
Gabriela said of her arrival in Swansea after a year in a refugee camp in Argentina “
We could cook real food for ourselves, I even started physically shaking when I saw four different sorts of cheese in the supermarket.
"I always call Wales my adopted mum...”
We could cook real food for ourselves, I even started physically shaking when I saw four different sorts of cheese in the supermarket.
"I always call Wales my adopted mum...”
“... my adopted mum welcomed me, brought me up, gave me opportunities and nurtured me. One day, my bones will be buried here."