Unique among the main UN organisations, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency was set up to deal with what was then regarded as a temporary refugee problem, and an individual one at that: the plight of Palestinian refugees.
The reason the film has been made is that the plight of the miners became a global news story.
But Zygielbojm is surely correct in saying that the plight of the Jews was largely overlooked at the time.
Mr Legrand says that the plight of the homeless in France has deteriorated drastically since the economic crisis in 2008.
It added that the plight of families, already buckling under the strain of debts, is set to worsen.
Human rights activists are determined that the plight of China's dissidents must not be ignored amid the diplomatic niceties.
Senior officials emphasized that the plight of the fund would have no impact on insurance for bank deposits.
I can tell you that the plight of refugees has been pretty much ignored here for years".
"But there's no way that the plight of the United States carriers is going to determine our success or failure".
However, it doesn't happen often that the plight of being outcast may stretch to embrace a whole generation.
In Dhaka, Meghna Guhathakurta, executive director of the nongovernmental group Research Initiatives, Bangladesh, insists that the plight of these women must not be ignored.
