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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Wednesday, November 27, 2019 The Wiener Holocaust Library 29 Russell Square, Bloomsbury LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM 3:00 pm Thursday, November 28, 2019 Oxford University Clarendon Institute OXFORD, ENGLAND 6:00 pm See Events page for December & beyond
Eight decades ago, my father boarded a train in Soviet Union whose destination was Iran. He was a child caught in the cross-currents of global conflict, starving, and his ultimate survival depended on geopolitical alliances, fierce advocacy efforts–and, though it is hard to describe his situation in such a way, luck. That odyssey which began …
In the middle of World War II, Tehran became a haven for both Jewish and Catholic Polish refugees who were welcomed as they arrived from Soviet Central Asia. BY MIKHAL DEKEL FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 19, 2019 In the summer of 1942, Bandar Pahlavi, a sleepy Iranian port town on the Caspian Sea, became a …
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History of World War II Podcast Episode 267 Oct 19, 2019 An interview with Mikhal Dekel about her book, Tehran Children, with Ray Harris Jr. Listen to Podcast
Escaping the Nazis by Way of Iran By Jonathan Brent New York Times Book Review, Oct. 9, 2019 . . . not simply another detail of the Holocaust but a matter of enduring existential, psychological and moral reflection. This review of Tehran Children appeared on Yom Kippur 2019. Read article