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Wednesday, June 20, 2018 –
12:45pm
Wednesday 20 June is World Refugee Day, when the UN
recognises the struggles and triumphs of displaced people around
the world who have been forced from their homes by violence,
prejudice or persecution.
To mark the day, here are five famous figures who started life
as refugees:
Freddie Mercury
The legendary Queen frontman was born Farrokh
Bulsara to Indian parents living n the British protectorate of
Zanzibar, now part of Tanzania.
In 1964, the family left to escape the violence
of the Zanzibar Revolution, in which the local African population
rose up against the island’s Arab and Indian minorities.
Mercury, then aged 17, and his family started a
new life in Middlesex. Six years later, he would meet guitarist
Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor – and the rest is
history.
Mila Kunis
Hollywood star Kunis was born in Ukraine in
1983, when the country was part of the Soviet Union.
Her parents, aware of the limited political and
economic freedom in the communist state, sought refuge in the US in
1991, when the future star was seven years old.
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Kunis has spoken in the past about the trauma of her first year
of school in New York, unable to speak English. She remains a
fluent Russian speaker, and frequently gives interviews in her
native tongue.
Andrew Sachs
The actor, best known for his portrayal of
hapless Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers, was born in Berlin
as Andreas Sachs, the child of a Jewish father and Catholic mother.
The family fled Germany in 1938 to escape the growing danger of
Nazi persecution, and settled in north London.
Popular legend has it that when Fawlty Towers was sold for
broadcast in Germany, Sachs reprised his role as Manuel for the
German dub – complete with Spanish accent.
Rita Ora
Ora and her family escaped war-torn Kosovo in
1991, when the singer was a year old.
In 2013, Ora recalled how she, her sister and their
parents had lived in a single room when they first arrived in
London as penniless refugees. However, she told the London Evening Standard that her childhood hardships
had made her stronger.
“That word [refugee] carries a lot of prejudice,” she said. “But
it also made us determined to survive.”
Henry Kissinger
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was
born into a German Jewish family, who escaped the Nazi regime in
1938, arriving in New York via London when he was 15 years
old.
Kissinger served in the US Army’s Counter
Intelligence Corps during the Second World War, before going into
politics
A foreign policy expert, he became President
Nixon’s security adviser and received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize
for his role in negotiating an end to the Vietnam war.
Kissinger is not the only former refugee to serve as Secretary
of State. Madeleine Albright, the first woman appointed to the
office, was granted asylum in the US aged 11 after her family fled
communist persecution in their native Czechoslovakia.
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