From Tel Aviv to Tehran - Jewish Aid and Rescue During World War II

From Tel Aviv to Tehran - Jewish Aid and Rescue During World War II explores the aid networks that developed on behalf of Jewish refugees in the Middle East. The Middle East has been widely neglected as an area of interest in Western Holocaust Historiography. Only recently new studies have shed light on this region during World War II. For many Jewish organizations, the Middle East was the last remaining territory where they were able to organize large-scale aid and rescue operations with the help of Allied forces during the war. Haurand will introduce the organizations that were involved, and with who they collaborated. She will share her research in multilingual primary sources from various continents to illustrate how diverse Jewish organizations competed and collaborated with each other in this endeavor. She will further illuminate how aid and rescue were able to proceed under dire circumstances and constraints during the war era throughout the Middle East. Moreover, she will highlight the effects these developments had on the individual refugee and how these experiences impacted post-war Jewish politics.