"Tehran Children" report
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2011.
Scope and Content
Consists of a printed report, February 1943, on the condition of orphans who came from Russia and were living in a refugee camp in Tehran, Iran. Also two handwritten letters written by HeChalutz members in Aden, Yemen, in 1944 and a news report from the HeChalutz sent from Tehran to the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem in 1946.
System of Arrangement
This is arranged in a single series.
Corporate Bodies
- Hechalutz (Organization)
Subjects
- Tehran (Iran)
- Jewish refugees--Iran--Tehran.
- Jewish children.
- Refugees.
- Iran.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Jewish refugees.
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Reports.