Dzieci Teheranu – od mrozów Syberii do słońca Palestyny. Rola delegatur Ambasady RP w ZSRR i armii Andersa w ratowaniu dzieci żydowskich
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
Author(s): Katarzyna Odrzywołek, Piotr TrojańskiSubject(s): History, Jewish studies, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Antisemitism
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: Tehran children; children of Zion; deportation to the East; Jews in Anders’s Army; rescuing Jewish children; anti-Semitism; Polish Army’s evacuation to Iran; Jewish Agency
Summary/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 dificult 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 inluenced the rescuing of Jewish children.
Journal: Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 11
- Page Range: 144-172
- Page Count: 29
- Language: Polish