Haunting Vintage Pictures Of Refugees

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POLISH REFUGEES PERSIA 1942-1945 (E 21187) There are large numbers of Polish refugees in Teheran, Persia. These pictures show some of the children about Christmas time. They are orphans deported by the Soviets to Siberia in 1939 and evacuated from the Soviet Union to Persia and Palestine with the main body of the future 2nd Polish Corps. A Polish doctor takes a blood test from a little girl in a medical centre in Tehran.