As the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center continues to feature and offer a wide variety of topics on the Holocaust, today we are adding the following to our list from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Chautauqua Institution:
Program: “The Tehran Children: Iran’s Unexpected Connection to the Holocaust”
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Time: 7:00 PM
Platform: This event will take place online and is free to the public.
Registration is required. To register please click here.
To view the program in full please click here.
During World War II, Iran gave shelter to thousands of Polish Jews fleeing the Nazis. Within this group who traversed vast parts of the Soviet Union to Iran, there were 1,000 young people who became known as the Tehran Children.
The history is less familiar in Iran, where the regime has become known for anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and the suppression of access to Holocaust history.
During this two-part digital program, join experts to learn about Iran’s lesser-known connection to the Holocaust, hear about a daughter’s decade-long journey in the footsteps of her “Tehran Child” father, and examine why retracing this history is relevant today. not only to Iranians, but all of humanity.
Part One: Why was Iran’s wartime rescue of Jewish orphans obscured?
Speakers:
Dr. Mikhal Dekel, Author, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey, and Director, Rifkind Center, City College of New York
Arash Azizi, Author, The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions
Moderator:
Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Part Two: How did this history impact one descendant of Jewish refugees?
Speaker:
Dr. Mikhal Dekel, Author, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey, and Director, Rifkind Center, City College of New York
Moderator:
Sony Ton-Aime, Director, Literary Arts, Chautauqua Institution
