Talk:Władysław Anders
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Lt. General Wladyslaw Anders's army is also remembered in connection with the "Teheran Children" [1].
"In 1942 an agreement was signed between the Polish government-in-exile and the Soviet government according to which Polish refugees who had chanced into Soviet territory would be enlisted in the Polish army (Anders Army). The emigration of twenty-four thousand Polish soldiers and refugees was authorized, and from April until August of 1942 they were taken via the Caspian Sea to Tehran. Among them were about one thousand Jewish children and eight hundred Jewish adults. Most of the children were orphans; a minority arrived with one parent and some with both. A number had parents who had remained in the Soviet Union and had handed the children over, as a last hope of keeping them alive, to Polish orphanages directed by priests and nuns; some of these children also reached Tehran. In Tehran the Jewish adult refugees created an orphanage with the active aid of the Jewish community.'
This excerpt is taken from The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman(ed.), New York: Macmillan, 1990.
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