Refugee Stories
The UK has a proud heritage of welcoming refugees, many of whom make a huge contribution to the enrichment of our national life, and some of whom have gone on to become well-known public figures through their achievements, despite facing immense adversity.
Here are just a few of them:
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud became a refugee from the in London in 1938 when the Nazis invaded his native Austria.
He went on to become the founder of modern-day psychoanalysis and changed psychiatric practice across the world.
Karl Marx
The political thinker and philosopher Karl Marx was a refugee in England at the time of the American Civil War. It was here he wrote Das Kapital, one of the most famous and influential books in the world.
In the following pages refugees from around our region speak about their first impressions of the UK and their new communities, what they've achieved since being here and their hopes for the future.
If you are a refugee in the East of England and would like to tell your story here, please e-mail ian.beattie.gov.uk.