VOLENDAM: A REFUGEE STORY examines the story of two thousand Russian Mennonite refugees living in the rubble of post-second world war Germany. Desperate to escape to a new life, the brutal dictator Stalin demanded all 'his people' back. These Mennonites were trapped within the borders of Soviet and Allied Germany and, if shipped back east, could face death or life in Siberian prison camps.he Soviet Union. Eventually, after a two year wait in refugee camps across Germany and Holland, they found transport on a ship called Volendam, waiting to take the Mennonite refugees out of Stalin's reach and straight to freedom.

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