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Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

The “Tehran Children” arrive in Eretz Israel,  February 1943

In September 1939, with the Nazi German invasion of Poland, some 300,000 Polish Jews fled for the Soviet Union. Thousands died on this journey, leaving their children orphaned. In 1942, 1,800 Jewish refugees were brought to Tehran, including approximately 1000 children, most of whom were orphans. In February 1943, these children and their escorts reached Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine).