Fleeing Hamburg for Venice, two orphans become involved with a gang of street children.

By an astonishing stroke of luck, a German Jew who had fled Hamburg in the nick of time lived in the same mining village and offered my parents a room.

After the arrest of members of the Robert Uhrig Group in February 1942 and of the group around Wilhelm Guddorf and John Sieg in autumn 1942, Saefkow and Franz Jacob, who had fled Hamburg to Berlin after a wave of arrests, began building a new resistance network of illegal cells in the factories of Berlin.

Most of Mr. Darkazanli's known associates fled Hamburg.

After the Second World War, Zakowski fled from Prussia with his mother and four siblings initially to Dortmund then Hamburg and finally the family settled in Niederzissen.

Three of the four suicide pilots, including Mr. Atta, had lived in Hamburg as students and three other suspected plotters had fled Hamburg shortly before the attacks.

Christian Friedrich Hunold fled Hamburg in 1706 after his Satyrischer Roman had depicted the city's elegant urban life as a place of scandal.

Holbrooke's mother, whose Jewish family fled Hamburg in 1933 for Buenos Aires before coming to New York, took him to Quaker meetings on Sundays.

The letter emphasized that Al Qaeda trained agents to resist interrogation and noted that there was evidence that other members of the cell, who fled Hamburg in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, knew of the cell's plans.