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A refugee turned army veteran started Elloras bakery in 1953 with displaced British chefs, and three generations later, it's still using wood-fired ovens. His grandsons now run five outlets serving everyone from cricketers to local school kids.
A young Ukrainian wrestler who fled war three years ago just won his second straight sumo championship in Tokyo, bringing him closer to achieving what no European has ever done. Danylo Yavhusishyn is now one step away from sumo's highest rank.
A Palestinian refugee who grew up getting fresh water once a week just won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing materials that could help solve the climate crisis. Dr. Omar Yaghi turned childhood hardship into breakthrough science that pulls water from desert air and captures carbon.