the former Yugoslavia
Zimbabwe
Syria is in civil war and millions are fleeing the country. Syria is in the Middle East/Asia.
Holocaust refugees?
Disasters, which may be natural or man made.
Once a country's quota was met, Jews were turned away.
venice
Refugees flee their home countries mainly due to war, persecution, violence, and human rights abuses.
The 1970s and 1980s saw a number of refugees arriving in New Zealand. They were fleeing war and came from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
A passport is a travel document. If you cannot obtain one (for instance you are fleeing your own country), the UN can provide, for refugees, a similar booklet to allow him / her do continue his journey.
People fleeing their homes from political persecution, physical or mental torture, war, famine and drought are typically called refugees.
In 1933-39 they were fleeing from persecution in Nazi Germany. If you are asking about earlier times, the key period was 1880-1914, when they were fleeing from persecution in Tsarist Russia.
The figure usually given is about 250,000 for the period 1933-1941. The figure includes political refugees as well as people fleeing racial persecution.