He fled Paris on a bicycle during the Nazi Occupation and, after a stint in the French Resistance, later found himself by chance serving as an air force photographer in France's Indo-China war in the early 1950s, travelling through Vietnam and then Cambodia, completely self-taught.
Close also interviewed Pontecorvo's son, Gil, now a 77-year-old retired nuclear physicist in Moscow, who was 12 when the family fled.
For those who have been, we often do not have vaccination cards as they fled from burning villages," says the 27-year-old nurse.
It has swelled in size as residents who fled the recent war in the Congo start to return, to take up work in trade, fishing and gold mining, which is beginning to kick off in earnest.
This was a month before Nadir fled Britain.
Riyazaat Ali, a 27-year-old Hazara student who has fled Quetta for the port city of Karachi, a jumping-off point for many refugees, told Guardian Australia that the Australian government's decision was "worse than the biggest bomb blast".
Some Jews had even fled to Hungary, she explained.
When I left school, I found an older set of associates, all my classmates having fled for university.
A report from the charity Freedom From Torture (FFT), has collated medical evidence from 34 female political activists who have fled to the UK from DRC.
One female political activist who fled to the UK after being detained, raped and tortured by police in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, said: "Many are raped by secret police and other security officials.
Berény, the leader of a pre-first world war avant garde movement called the Group of Eights, fled to Berlin in 1920 after designing recruitment posters for Hungary's short-lived communist revolution in 1919.
