Word: flees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland, "a thorough purge is going on in all phases of Jewish life . . . Politically conscious peoples are being forced to liquidate their past, and confess to crimes they never committed. Those who are able [to do so] flee the country...
...Mindszenty hid many Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis. Last week, a witness spoke up-but not in the Communists' Budapest courtroom. She was Mrs. Janos Peter, a Hungarian Jew who had escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp. She now lived in Vienna. "I was advised to flee to Veszprem," she related. "I put myself under the protection of Bishop Mindszenty. He received me warmly and hid me in the cellar of his palace. At least 25 people were there. Mindszenty brought food for us. He came to us several times a day and comforted us with apostolic...
...done them little good in Hungary where their schools have been nationalized. Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, who tried to oppose the Communists, is in prison on a phony black-marketing charge. Ferenc Nagy, a leading Presbyterian who as Premier tried to collaborate with the Communists, was forced to flee the country...
...this point the Japanese "intervention" in China drew Chiang's energies elsewhere. Mao and Chu, leading a Red army of 80,000 men, were able to break through the Nationalist encirclement and flee to the northwest. Thus began what the Chinese Communists consider their great epic-the Long March...
Advancing Communist armies have forced the Chinese director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute to flee with his staff room Yenching University in Peking, an official of the Cambridge branch revealed yesterday...