Famous people who had to flee their home countries
Mila Kunis: Mila Kunis grew up with her Jewish parents in Soviet Ukraine. Her family had suffered greatly in the Holocaust.
Mila Kunis: Her family left the Ukraine in 1991 due to religious persecution when she was seven years old.
Sigmund Freud: Famed psychologist Sigmund Freud was born in Austria in 1858.
Sigmund Freud: Freud was of Jewish descent and was endangered by the rise of Nazi Germany. He escaped Austria in 1938 and relocated to England. He died there in 1939.
M.I.A: Rapper M.I.A. was born to Sri Lankan parents in London in 1975. Within a few months of her birth, her family returned to live in Sri Lanka.
M.I.A: Her family were displaced by the war and her father had to go into hiding from the Sri Lankan army.
Rita Ora: Rita Ora’s parents are Albanian and she was born in Yugoslavia in 1990, known today as Kosovo. Yugoslavia was falling apart at the time.
Rita Ora: They relocated to London and Ora and her two siblings were raised there.
Freddie Mercury: Freddie Mercury’s parents were Parsis from Western India, but lived and worked in Zanzibar where he was born.
Freddie Mercury: He spent much of his childhood in India, but his father continued to work in Zanzibar. His family emigrated to the UK in 1969.