Audiobook15 hours
Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey
Written by Mikhal Dekel
Narrated by Suzanne Toren
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
About this audiobook
Fleeing East from Nazi terror, over a million Polish Jews traversed the Soviet Union, many finding refuge in Muslim lands. Their story-the extraordinary saga of two thirds of Polish Jewish survivors-has never been fully told.
Author Mikhal Dekel's father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as "special settlements." Then came a journey during which tens of thousands died of starvation and disease en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. While American organizations negotiated to deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews who remained there, Dekel's father and aunt were two of nearly one thousand refugee children who were evacuated via Polish military transport to Iran. Months later, their Zionist caregivers escorted them via India to Mandatory Palestine, where, at the endpoint of their 13,000 mile journey, they joined hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Dekel fuses memoir with archival research to recover this astonishing story, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors, including an Iranian colleague, a Polish PiS politician, and a Russian oligarch.
Author Mikhal Dekel's father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as "special settlements." Then came a journey during which tens of thousands died of starvation and disease en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. While American organizations negotiated to deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews who remained there, Dekel's father and aunt were two of nearly one thousand refugee children who were evacuated via Polish military transport to Iran. Months later, their Zionist caregivers escorted them via India to Mandatory Palestine, where, at the endpoint of their 13,000 mile journey, they joined hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Dekel fuses memoir with archival research to recover this astonishing story, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors, including an Iranian colleague, a Polish PiS politician, and a Russian oligarch.
Related to Tehran Children
Related audiobooks
The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMidnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOut the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Crisis of Zionism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Give You My Heart: A True Story of Courage and Survival Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The State of Israel vs. the Jews Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Dear Ones: One Family and the Final Solution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Watchmakers: A Powerful WW2 Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhere the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why?: Explaining the Holocaust Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Arab Winter: A Tragedy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eichmann in My Hands: A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last Jews in Berlin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5FDR and the Jews Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Asian History For You
The Rape of Nanking: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gulag: A History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Putin Interviews: Oliver Stone Interviews Vladimir Putin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ancient Aliens®: The Official Companion Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Krakatoa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cold War: A New History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Miyamoto Musashi: The Life and Legacy of Japan’s Most Legendary Samurai Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shogun: The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Tehran Children
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
2 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing read! An unknown but essential part of WWII history. Part history, part memoir.