The Teheran Children Accuse: Original Documents and Full Story of the Seizure and Non-Religious Education of Refugee Children by the Jewish Agency

(HOLOCAUST)

The Jewish Voice

New York

1944

Text in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. Includes single-leaf solicitation.

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