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This is how Polish children look when they arrive in Iran – Antique Print

This is how Polish children look when they arrive in Iran, ca.1942. — historic photograph
This is how Polish children look when they arrive in Iran, ca.1942.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This is how Polish children look when they arrive in Iran comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Children arriving in Iran, as this caption card describes, were among the Polish refugees evacuated southward around 1942. After a 1941 agreement between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile, thousands of Poles who had been deported into Soviet territory were moved out through Iran, and many were women, children and orphans. Under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had succeeded his father that year, Iran sheltered these refugees in camps across the country. The record's details are unverified, but the scene reflects the wartime displacement of civilian families.

Created / publishedca.1942.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Polish American Council. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: WWII--Iran-Hist.; WWII--Refugees;Children and war--ca.1942; Poland--Hist--ca.1942; War Crimes, 1942; WWII--1942; Poland--Hist. 1939-1945; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,040 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139300

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