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Tehran Children – from Siberian Frost to Palestinian Sun. The role of Polish Embassy’s diplomatic posts in the USSR and Anders’s Army in rescuing Jewish children
Katarzyna Odrzywołek
redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl BioPhD student at the Institute of History of the Pedagogical University of National Education Commission in Krakow (UP), vice president of the Mifgash Foundation. She collaborates with the Centre for Documentation of Deportations, Expulsions and Resettlement of the UP and the International Meeting Center in Oświęcim. Her research interests are focused on ethnic and national minorities, oral history and forced migrations during the Second World War.
Institute of History, Pedagogical University in Krakow
Piotr Trojański
redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl BioHistorian, works at the Institute of History of the Pedagogical University of National Education Commission in Krakow and at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim. He is also a lecturer at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Jagiellonian University. In addition, he conducts research on the modern history of Jews and studies various contexts of education and the memory of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Recently, a book under his editorship was published, entitled Auschwitz i Holokaust. Edukacja w szkole i miejscu pamięci (Oświęcim 2014).
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5907-8134
Institute of History, Pedagogical University in Krakow
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 11 (2015), pages: 144-172
Publication date: 2015-12-01
Abstract
This article tells the story of Jewish orphans evacuated with the Polish Army (Armia Andersa) in 1942 from the USSR to Iran in the context of the help they received from Anders’s Army and the Polish government in exile through the network of diplomatic posts of the Polish embassy in the USSR and the Ministry of Labour and Welfare (Ministerstwo Pracy i Opieki Społecznej). It shows the broad and often complicated and difficult cooperation of these institutions with Jewish organisations, including mainly the Jewish Agency. The authors characterise the various forms of help provided to Jewish children and analyse its motivation, often discrepant. Moreover, it asks questions about anti-Semitism in Anders’s Army and how it influenced the rescuing of Jewish children.
Keywords
Tehran children, children of Zion, deportation to the East, Jews in Anders’s Army, anti-Semitism, rescuing Jewish children, Polish Army’s evacuation to Iran, Jewish Agency
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