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Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Refugees

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15. Jerry Springer

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Jerry Springer was born in London to Jewish refugees who had escaped Germany at the outbreak of WWII. His grandmothers and one great uncle died in the Nazi concentration camps.

Springer moved to Queens, New York in 1949, and later went on to become the Democratic mayor of Cincinnati. Today, he is best known for The Jerry Springer Show.

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