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Search - Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey

Tehran Children A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey
Author: Mikhal Dekel

Fleeing East from Nazi terror, over a million Polish Jews traversed the Soviet Union, many finding refuge in Muslim lands. Their story?the extraordinary saga of two thirds of Polish Jewish survivors?has never been fully toldAuthor Mikhal Dekel?s father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in ea... more »stern 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 via Polish military transport to Iran, where they were embraced by an ancient Persian-Jewish community celebrating familiar rituals in unfamiliar ways. Months later, their Zionist caregivers escorted them via India to Mandatory Palestine, where, at the endpoint of their 13,000 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.Beginning with the death of the inscrutable Tehran Child who was her father, Dekel fuses memoir with extensive archival research to recover this astonishing story, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors including an Iranian colleague, a Polish PiS politician, a Russian oligarch, and an Uzbek descendent of Korean deportees. The history she uncovers is one of the worst and the best of humanity, of fate and destiny, of hospitality and of cruelty, of love and hate. The experiences her father and aunt endured, along with so many others, ultimately reshaped and redefined their lives and identities and those of other refugees and rescuers, profoundly and permanently, during and after the war.With literary grace, Tehran Children presents a unique narrative of the Holocaust, whose governing symbol is not the concentration camp, but the refugee, and whose center is not Europe, but Central Asia and the Middle East. 10 illustrations

ISBN-13: 9781324001034
ISBN-10: 1324001038
Publication Date: 10/1/2019
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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History >> Middle East >> Iran
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