The Teheran Children Accuse: Original Documents and Full Story of the Seizure and Non-Religious Education of Refugee Children by the Jewish Agency
AUCTION 22 |
Tuesday, January 27th,
2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn
Lot 76
(HOLOCAUST)
The Teheran Children Accuse: Original Documents and Full Story of the Seizure and Non-Religious Education of Refugee Children by the Jewish Agency
New York: The Jewish Voice 1944
Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $300
In 1943, Polish Jewish children, whose parents had been exterminated in the Holocaust, arrived in Eretz Israel by way of Teheran, Iran. They became known as “the Teheran Children.” These children, who came from observant homes in Poland were sent by the Jewish Agency to secular kibbutzim that left most of them bereft of their religious beliefs. The Introductory Remarks to this ideological booklet begins with the line: “This is a document of shame.” Includes open letters by Rabbis Eliezer Silver, Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, Ezekiel Abramsky, Abraham Mordecai Alter, Issar Zalman Meltzer, Isaac Ze'ev Soloveitchik, etc