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Article: Iran: A refuge for World War II's refugees.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Byline: Joyce Pisarello
Hello. Thank you. Goodbye now. These words are the extent of my Farsi, so when a caretaker answered the bell at the gate of Tehran's Roman Catholic cemetery I froze. Truthfully, I hadn't anticipated that anyone would be watching over this quiet monument to a time most have forgotten.
The caretaker looked at me and his one-word question provided the password to enter.
"Polish?" he asked.
"Polish," I replied.
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