Mikhal Dekel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran. More than a million Jews escaped east from Nazi occupied Poland to Soviet occupied Poland. There they suffered extreme deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated," journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority of Polish Jews who survived the Nazis outlived the war in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan;...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Despite decades of Holocaust scholarship, the full story of roughly a quarter million Jews -- the majority of Polish-Jewish survivors -- who escaped Nazi extermination in the Soviet interior, Central Asia, and the Middle East is largely unknown, even to their descendants. Literary scholar Mikhal Dekel, whose father was among these survivors, knew only that he had been rescued with a group called the "Tehran Children." To faithfully reconstruct his...