In the East: How My Father and a Quarter Million Polish Jews Survived the Holocaust Dekel Mikhal
Despite decades of outstanding writing about the Holocaust, the full story of roughly a quarter million Jews who survived Nazi extermination in the Soviet interior, Central Asia, and the Middle East…
Specifikacia In the East: How My Father and a Quarter Million Polish Jews Survived the Holocaust Dekel Mikhal
Despite decades of outstanding writing about the Holocaust, the full story of roughly a quarter million Jews who survived Nazi extermination in the Soviet interior, Central Asia, and the Middle East is nearly unknown, even to their descendants. Investigating her late father's mysterious identity as a "Tehran Child," literary scholar Mikhal Dekel delved deep into archives --including Soviet files not previously available to Western scholars--on three continents. She pursued the path of these Holocaust refugees from remote Kolyma in Siberia to Tashkent in Uzbekistan and, with the help of an Iranian friend and colleague, to Tehran. It was there that her father, aunt, and nearly a thousand other Jewish refugee children survived the war.Dekel's part-memoir, part-history, part-literary-political reflection on fate, identity, and memory uncovers the lost story of Jewish refuge in