{"id":1428705,"date":"2022-04-11T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1428705"},"modified":"2022-04-11T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T13:30:15","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-european-refugees-during-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-european-refugees-during-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show European Refugees During World War II?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-european-refugees-during-world-war-ii%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1428705&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Qayrdoone\/photos\/a.1177685552301514\/7056337127769631\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Qayrdoone\/photos\/a.1177685552301514\/7056337127769631\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1649449600565000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2BytaQhCj_LfROgjIhurqc\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show European refugees trying to board a ship bound for Africa during World War II.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image was taken in 1991 and shows Albanian refugees boarding a ship bound for Italy.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Over 4.5 million people have fled Ukraine as refugees since the Russian invasion began in February, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/data2.unhcr.org\/en\/situations\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data<\/a> from the U.N. Millions more have been forced to flee their homes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-60555472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a refugee crisis has unfolded in Europe, according to one Facebook post. The post includes a black and white photo that appears to show hundreds of people attempting to board an over-crowded ship as it prepares to depart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese aren\u2019t Syrians,\u201d reads the post\u2019s caption. \u201cThey\u2019re Europeans trying to get to North Africa ( Algeria ) during World War II. So next time you think of closing the borders you might want to check with your grandparents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The image is digitally altered and occurs after World War II. A reverse image search revealed it actually shows Albanian refugees boarding a ship that was heading to Italy in 1991. The same image, in full color, was featured in a 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/september\/across-the-adriatic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London Review of Books<\/a> blog post that explained it shows Albanian refugees leaving on the \u201cVlora\u201d in August 1991, a ship that was carrying Cuban sugar. The refugees were fleeing from a \u201cdisastrous economic, social and political situation in Albania,\u201d according to a January 1992 <a href=\"https:\/\/assembly.coe.int\/nw\/xml\/XRef\/X2H-Xref-ViewHTML.asp?FileID=6888&#038;lang=EN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The original image is in color, not black and white, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.fr\/detail\/photo-d%27actualit%C3%A9\/august-8th1991-arrival-in-bari-of-the-vlora-with-10-photo-dactualit%C3%A9\/955348318?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">images<\/a> of the ship in color can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.fr\/detail\/photo-d%27actualit%C3%A9\/august-8th1991-arrival-in-bari-of-the-vlora-with-10-photo-dactualit%C3%A9\/955348284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Getty Images<\/a>. Footage of the incident pictured can also be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZUok2sBsqew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>. The image shared on Facebook appears to have been altered to make it appear older. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/18\/fact-check-black-people-mistreatment-ukraine-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Do These Photos Show Black People Being Mistreated In Ukraine?)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The same false claim about the image previously went viral in 2015, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/lifestyle\/real-life\/true-stories\/pictures-of-albanians-fleeing-for-italian-coast-remind-us-that-seeking-refuge-is-nothing-new\/news-story\/fd1467dfbb7fb96d36876bf9ea8c7cf3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Facebook claims to show European refugees trying to board a ship bound for Africa during World War II.Verdict: False The image was taken in 1991 and shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}