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The term "Tehran Children" was used to designate the group of approximately 1,000 Jewish children who were able to flee from Nazi-occupied Europe to Palestine via Iran in February 1943. When the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, thousands of Jewish families fled to the USSR, to Siberia or Central Asia, and thousands of children became orphans. The children were able to leave Europe as part of the Polish Government-in-Exile's 1942 authorization of the emigration of twenty-four thousand refugees and Polish soldiers from Soviet territory to Tehran. Zipporah Shertok and Zionist pioneers directed the orphanage established for the children in Tehran, Beit ha-Yeled ha-Yehudi (Jewish Child's Home). The children sailed to India in January 1943, and arrived in Palestine on February 18, 1943. (en-US)

Fonte

Gutman, Israel, ed. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1990. p. 1454-1455

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