The paperback edition of Tehran Children will be published under a new title: In the East: How My Father and a Quarter Million Polish Jews Survived the Holocaust You can preorder it here available December 7th, 2021
So grateful that Tehran Children was chosen, and congratulations to Benjy Balint, Sarah Hurwitz and Yaakov Katz! jpost.com/Israel-News/Sami-Rohr-Prize-announces-finalists-for-2020-literary-prize-623510 Watch video https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=840131773064204
This week, I spoke with BBC World Service correspondent Celia Hatton about Tehran Children, and we discussed the realities of life as a child refugee historically and today. Here is that segment of the show: In my book I shared the story of young people fleeing Nazi persecution who ended up in the USSR …
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This full-page review appeared in The Guardian’s New Review section: What makes Dekel’s study so valuable is not just its assiduous detailing of one family’s fate during the second world war, but how it also makes us reflect on our current era, with its mass migrations of desperate people fleeing conflict and hardship only …
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My last major event in NYC will be at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park. Join me Wednesday Nov. 13 at 7PM https://mjhnyc.org/events/tehran-children-with-author-mikhal-dekel/ Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place New York, NY Wednesday Nov. 13th at 7:00 pm To see all Events click here