The team of counselors who accompanied the "Tehran children" on their journey to Palestine. Photographed in late 1942 in their camp in Tehran. With them is Elchanan, a local Jew who donated money to the operation. In the photo:
Halina Kadushin, Zipporah Shertok - Sharett, Moshe Salzman, Rachel Zusmanowic - Shamir, David Lauenberg - La'or, Einziger, a woman named Farkas, and Weiss.
Note:
The name "Tehran children" (in Hebrew: Yaldei Tehran) was given to a group of some 900 Polish Jewish children, most of them orphans, who came to Palestine in February 1943. The children came from Jewish families who, fearing the German army, had fled Poland eastward to the territory under Soviet control. Getting the children and their escorts to Tehran, which was then under British control, was made possible by the setting up of the Polish army (called the Anders Army) made up of Polish refugees in the USSR. Soldiers from this army and additional thousands of Polish refugees, including the children and their escorts, were taken to Iran. In January 1943, the British authorized the "Tehran children's" immigration to Palestine. Their journey began in Tehran, passing through Karachi (then India, now in Pakistan), from which they sailed to the city of Suez in Egypt. From there they traveled by train, and on February 18 they reached Palestine.
See:
"Encyclopedia of the Holocaust" (Yad Vashem, ed. I. Gutman), NY: Macmillan, 1990, vol. 4, pp. 1454 - 1455. Close