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“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him.” — Anaïs Nin Throughout world history, the majority of public, educational, and religious institutions have censored certain books for political, religious, or cultural reasons. This project serves as a place to gather together the writers -- cherished, reviled, or anywhere in-between -- who have had their work hidden ...
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands , usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau ,[1] was a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States, which attempted to change society in the former Confederacy.The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which established the Freedmen's Bureau on Marc...
asylee (n.) A non-citizen of a country who has been granted asylum in that country.> refugee (n.) A person seeking refuge in a foreign country due to persecution, disaster, or other factors beyond their control.This project is for gathering notable asylees and refugees and for determining future trees that need to be built on Geni. The following lists are incomplete. Please add information belo...
In the early 1930s, a great number of German and Austrian writers and intellectuals left their countries after the Nazi book burning campaign . A lot of them settled in Sanary-sur- Mer, at one point between 1933 and 1944, a then small French village in the South of France, 30 miles from Marseille. Among them the proportion of Jewish intellectuals was high.On arriving, many exiles stayed at the ...
Lithuanians began coming to Australia as early as 1830 after the uprising against regime of the Russian Empire. After the WWI Lithuanians from Scotland started moving to Australia and by 1939, there were 1000 Lithuanians in Australia. After WWII aproximately 10 000 Lithuanian refugees were relocated to Australia. This project aims to gather notable people who resided in Australia and were of Li...