Portrait of one of the Teheran children aboard a train from Suez to Athlit.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 05809

Date: 1943
Locale: Athlit, Palestine/Israel
Variant Locale: Israel
Photo Designation: JEWISH LIFE IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL -- Arrival -- Pre-war/Wartime -- Teheran Children -- In Palestine
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Laor

Event History: The Tehran Children were a group of about one thousand Jewish children who had fled eastward from Poland with their families at the outbreak of World War II. Many of them had lost their parents during their flight. These orphans were allowed to emigrate from the USSR along with 23,000 Polish soldiers and refugees, under an agreement signed by the Polish Government-in-exile and the Soviet government allowing for the enlistment of Polish refugees in the Soviet Union in the (Polish) Anders Army. In the spring and summer of 1942, the children were taken to Tehran along with the other refugees and soldiers. After immigration permits were obtained from the British, the children were brought to Palestine via Karachi and Suez on February 18, 1943.

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Keyword: ARRIVAL
CLOSE-UPS
EMIGRES/EMIGRATION/AID (PREWAR/WARTIME)
IMMIGRATION
IMMIGRATION (TO PALESTINE/ISRAEL)
JEWS (POLISH)
ORPHANS
REFUGEES (JEWISH)
TEHERAN CHILDREN
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: David Laor
: Record last modified: 1997-02-10 00:00:00
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