Association of Teheran children and their instructors collection

Identifier
irn504375
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0117
  • RG-19.042
Dates
1 Jan 1993 - 31 Dec 1993
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
  • English
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504375

Extent and Medium

folders

box

oversize boxes

2

1

2

,

3 videocassettes (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Creator(s)

  • Association of Teheran Children and their Instructors

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

David and Rachel Laor compiled the copies of materials from the 50th anniversary exhibition after the Teheran Children's reunion in 1993. The Laors donated the exhibition scrapbooks and other related materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Exhibtions Division in Oct. 1994. The Exhibitions Division transferred the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Nov. 1994.

Scope and Content

The collection contains copies of various documents from an exhibition produced for the 50th anniversary reunion of the Association of Teheran Children and Their Instructors in 1993. The exhibition of documents and photographs recounts the history of the rescue of the "Teheran Children" from the Nazis and their relocation in Israel via Teheran, Iran, in 1943. Daṿid Laʾor, an agent of the Jewish Agency for Israel, served as the Director of the Jewish Children's Home in a camp for Polish refugees in Teheran beginning in 1942. He organized instructors to help locate Jewish children in the refugee camp and to help escort them to Israel. Also contains information about the lives of the Teheran Children in Israel after their arrival and the work of Henrietta Szold.

System of Arrangement

File units *01 and *02, exhibition scrapbooks; File unit *03, printed materials; *04, general photographs; and *05, videocassettes Documents and photographs in the exhibition scrapbooks arranged thematically

People

  • Szold, Henrietta, 1860-1945.
  • Laʾor, Daṿid.
  • Laʾor, Raḥel.

Corporate Bodies

  • Jewish Agency for Israel. Youth Aliyah Department

Subjects

  • Jewish children--Iran--Tehran.
  • Refugees, Jewish--Iran--Tehran.
  • Israel.
  • Jews, Polish--Iran--Tehran.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Iran--Tehran.
  • Israel--Emigration and immigration.
  • Children -- Humanitarian assistance -- Associations, institutions, etc

Genre

  • Document
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