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Prior to the outbreak of World War One, there were approximately 300,000 Jews living within Britain.
By the end of the war, 250,000 Belgians had come to the UK for safety, but it did not always work out that way.
This post features the biographies of a number of Belgian refugee families who resided in Nantwich during the First World War
A fact that is not widely known is that a few hundred Belgian refugees found their way to Mid Cheshire in the first months of WWI.
