Tehran children a Holocaust refugee odyssey
"The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran. More than a million Jews escaped east from Nazi occupied Poland to Soviet occupied Poland. There they suffered extreme deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements"...
| Main Author: | Dekel, Mikhal, 1965- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: New York City, 2007
- "Each of us feels as if he is born again" : Iran, August 1942
- "A liberal family" : Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, 1939
- Border crossing : from Hitler to Stalin
- Ukzaniks : laborers in Arkhangelsk and Komi, USSR
- "I am a Jew"; "I am an Uzbek"
- A Polish nation in exile, Jewish relief efforts : London, New York, and the USSR
- Samarqand : city of refugees
- Polish and Jewish nation building in Tehran
- Hebrew children : Kibbutz Ein Harod.