Bibliograph

Tehran children, a Holocaust refugee odyssey, Mikhal Dekel

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Tehran children, a Holocaust refugee odyssey, Mikhal Dekel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-391) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tehran children

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1119730954

Responsibility statement

Mikhal Dekel

Sub title

a Holocaust refugee odyssey

Summary

"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" and then, once "liberated," journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority of Polish Jews who survived the Nazis outlived the war in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan; some of them continued on to Iran. The story of their suffering, both those who died and those who survived, has rarely been told. Following the footsteps of her father, one of a thousand refugee children who traveled to Iran and later to Palestine, Dekel fuses memoir with historical investigation in this account of the all-but-unknown Jewish refuge in Muslim lands. Along the way, Dekel reveals the complex global politics behind this journey, discusses refugee aid and hospitality, and traces the making of collective identities that have shaped the postwar world--the histories nations tell and those they forget"--, Provided by publisher

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