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Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey

Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey

Dekel, Mikhal

Hardcover

HolocaustIran HistoryPolish History

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 1324001038
ISBN13: 9781324001034
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Oct 1 2019
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Author Mikhal Dekel's father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as special settlements. Then came a journey during which tens of thousands died of starvation and disease en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. While American organizations negotiated to deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews who remained there, Dekel's father and aunt were two of nearly one thousand refugee children who were evacuated to Iran, where they were embraced by an ancient Persian-Jewish community. Months later, their Zionist caregivers escorted them via India to Mandatory Palestine, where, at the endpoint of their thirteen-thousand-mile journey, they joined hundreds of thousands of refugees (including over one hundred thousand Polish Catholics). The arrival of the Tehran Children was far from straightforward, as religious and secular parties vied over their futures in what would soon be Israel.

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