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Tehran Children

Oct 6, 2021 | 1:00 pm
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Mikhal Dekel’s father, Hannan, far left, one of the Tehran Children. (Photo by: Estate of Rivka Benyamini)

Mikhal Dekel’s father, Hannan, far left, one of the Tehran Children. (Photo by: Estate of Rivka Benyamini)

Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents:

Tehran Children: How a Decade Long Search in My Father's Footsteps Became "One of the Greatest Untold Stories of the Second World War"

Presented by: Mikhal Dekel

It is a largely unknown fact most Polish Jews who escaped Nazi extermination - nearly a quarter-million - survived in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Iran and India. Unearthing the past, while tackling memory politics in the present.

Mikhal Dekel, whose then twelve-year-old father was such a refugee, will share her decade-long archival research and global travel to retrace their 13,000-mile route.

This event will be held online via Zoom.

 

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Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty, Alumni, Community
Organization/Sponsor
Jewish Studies Center
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