In the summer of 1942, nearly a thousand Jewish children—many orphaned, all displaced—arrived in Tehran after a long and brutal journey across war-torn Europe and the Soviet Union. They had fled Nazi-occupied Poland, endured hunger, disease, and forced displacement, and reached a place few would associate with Holocaust-era refuge: Iran.

For many, Tehran was not their final destination. But it was the place where survival became possible again.

The story of the “Tehran Children” remains one of the lesser-known chapters of Holocaust-era displacement. Yet it reveals something essential: survival during the war did not follow a single, predictable path. It often depended on unexpected........

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