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Have you ever heard of 'Nansen passports'?
2022-06-20 12:09:04 / AKTUALITET
On World Refugee Day, we commemorate Nobel Laureate Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) - polar explorer and originator of the "Nansen Passports" for refugees.
In 1922, Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen became the first High Commissioner for Refugees appointed by the League of Nations. After World War I, he was responsible for the exchanges of 400,000 prisoners of war between Russia, Germany, and the former Austria-Hungary. Nansen also engaged in humanitarian relief work in 1921, during the severe famine in the Soviet Union. His work on behalf of prisoners of war and hungry people won him the peace prize.
Nansen was a scientist, polar hero, political activist and diplomat. He received a doctorate in zoology in 1888. In the same year, he was the first to cross the Greenland Inland ice. He then did not reach the North Pole, but nevertheless became internationally famous. Nansen was a nationalist activist when Norway seceded from its union with Sweden in 1905.
After 1922, the League of Nations issued "Nansen passports" to stateless refugees to enable them to cross national borders. Nansen himself became responsible for the resettlement of Greeks and Turks after the war between the two countries. In the last years of his life, he took over the Armenian cause. Between 1922 and 1942 450,000 Nansen passports were issued.
Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922./ Prepared by Klodi Stralla
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