In October 1943, shortly before he was to be arrested by the German police, Niels Bohr escaped to Sweden with his family, later travelling to London and on to work on the Manhattan Project.

Early in the 11th century Sigmund or Sigmundur Brestisson, whose family had flourished in the southern islands but had been almost exterminated by invaders from the northern, was sent from Norway, whither he had escaped, to take possession of the islands for Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway.

If a hoplite escaped, he would sometimes be forced to drop his cumbersome aspis, thereby disgracing himself to his friends and family ( becoming a " ripsaspis ", one who threw his shield ).

Born in Berlin, Germany to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in January 1936, emigrating with his family to the United States.

She also composed the libretto for the opera Margaret Garner ( 2005 ), based on the life and trial of an enslaved woman who escaped with her family across the river.

In that time not one family has escaped the effects of forcible removal ( confirmed by representatives of the Queensland and WA Governments in evidence to the Inquiry ).

In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family.

Others propose she may have been recruiting more escaped slaves in Canada, and Kate Clifford Larson suggests she may have been in Maryland, recruiting for Brown's raid or attempting to rescue more family members.

* The Trevelyan family of Cornwall takes its coat of arms from a local legend, in which a man named Trevelyan escaped the innundation by riding a white horse.

In March 1942, MacArthur, his family and his staff left nearby Corregidor Island in PT boats and escaped to Australia, where MacArthur became Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area.

A sudden illness in one of his companions forced their return to Kentucky, and shortly afterward Henson escaped north with his family, settling in Canada where he became a civic leader.

People often confuse peccaries, which are found in the Americas, with the pig family that originated in Afro-Eurasia, especially since some domestic pigs brought by European settlers have escaped over the years and now run wild as " razorback " hogs in many parts of the United States.

The private investigator Jeff Katz, who was hired by Calvi's family in 1991 to look into his death, claimed it was likely that senior figures in the Italian establishment had escaped prosecution.

Charles prepared for a counter-revolutionary invasion of France, but after a letter by Marie Antoinette postponed it to after the royal family had escaped France.

Voiced by Grammer, he is the primary villain in the ride, having escaped from prison to get revenge on the Simpson family.

Kinzie escaped with his family unharmed and returned to Detroit.

The burn off escaped control and the local fire department was called to extinguish the fire and protect the family farm from flames.

After the assassination of the rest of the royal family, Zamiatkin reportedly escaped with the children via ship, sailing from Odessa to Alexandria.

Benjamin and his family escaped just before the raid, and were repaid for the damages after the British were defeated at Yorktown.

A white mob attacked the Landry family, lynching the parents and hunting down their son, who escaped after nearly being shot.

Under his adroit leadership the north-west escaped the worst horrors of decades of civil war that devastated other parts of England and his family “ helped bring a degree of cultivation and refinement to the north-west ”.

By Mitchum's own account, he escaped and returned to his family in Delaware.

While Curtiz himself had escaped Europe before the rise of Nazism, other members of his family were not as lucky.

Later Franklin's family helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the Nazis.

2 young family members escaped to the neighbors, as the surrounding farms turned out to help put out the fire.

However, in January 2011, the Spanish government denied a request by the U. S. ambassador to return the painting to the Cassirer family in California, which claims with proof that it was among those illegally taken by Nazis in Germany.

After the war he wrote on Jewish spirituality ; most of his family had been murdered by the Nazis in Lithuania.

Wilhelm II initially supported the Nazi Party, and his four sons of the exiled German royal family, including Prince Eitel Friedrich and Prince Oskar, became members of the Nazi Party, in hopes that in exchange for their support, the Nazis would permit the restoration of the monarchy.

When the Nazis invaded, the family fled, Singer leaving on a children's transport train with other Jewish children.

Theoretically the Nazis believed that women must be subservient to men, avoid careers, devote themselves to childbearing and child-rearing, and be a helpmate of the traditional dominant father in the traditional family.

After the Nazis seized power the family moved first to Möhlstrasse in Munich, and in 1934 to Lake Tegern, where they bought a house.

Finkelstein states that his consciousness of " the Nazi holocaust " is rooted in his parents ' experiences in the Warsaw ghetto ; with the exception of his parents themselves, " every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis ".

Unlike many other leading Nazis at this juncture, Goebbels proved to have strong convictions, moving himself and his family into the Vorbunker, that was connected to the lower Führerbunker under the Reich Chancellery gardens in central Berlin.

In 1933, after a violent encounter with the recently installed Nazis, he left for France and was then able to use family connections to flee to Bristol, England, arriving September 24, 1933.

The U. S. S. R also screened films depicting partisan activity and the suffering inflicted by the Nazis, such as Girl No. 217, which showed a Russian girl enslaved by an inhumane German family.

During WWII the Jewish Savoye family was sent to concentration camps by the Nazis who took over the house and used it for storage.

In 1941, Wyler directed one of the key films that galvanized support for Britain and against the Nazis in an America slow to awaken to the threat in Europe, it was Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), a story of a middle class English family adjusting to the war in Europe.

In 1944 the family of Corrie ten Boom was arrested by the Nazis ; they had been hiding Jews and Dutch resistance workers from the German occupier throughout the war.

Grynszpan's assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on November 7, 1938 in Paris ( in revenge for the expulsion of his family ), provided the Nazis with a convenient pretext for the Kristallnacht, the antisemitic pogrom of November 9 – 10, 1938.

Essentially all family assets were surrendered to the Nazis in return for protection afforded the two sisters under exceptional interpretations of racial law, allowing them to continue to live in their family palace in Vienna.

After the defeat of the Nazis in the European Theatre of World War II and the collapse of Nazi Germany and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Albright and family moved back to Prague, where they were given a luxurious apartment in the Hradcany district ( which later caused controversy, as it had belonged to an ethnic German Bohemian industrialist family forced out by the Beneš decrees – see " Controversies ").

As exiles, the Habsburg family took the lead in resisting the Nazis in Austria, but this foundered because of opposition between monarchists and socialists.

The family suffered from a deficient diet and lived with the constant fear that they would be massacred by their jailers, as an act of revenge on the part of the Nazis, angered at their defeat ( by now becoming increasingly certain ) by the Allies, or that they would be caught in the cross-fire between Allied forces and their captors, who might try to make a desperate last stand at the site of the royal family's internment.

About his own family experience he said: " My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town.

By this time all his other family members were killed by the Nazis.

Later given to the family's Vienna branch, where a family servant kept them hidden during the Holocaust when the Nazis confiscated the family's other possessions, the Netsuke were in 1947 taken back to Japan by a surviving family member who came to live in Tokyo.