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Article: Children of Zion.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Henryk Grynberg. Jacqueline Mitchell, tr. Israel Gutman, afterword. Evanston, Il. Northwestern University Press. 1998 ([C] 1997). xi + 178 pages. $49.95 ($14.95 paper). ISBN 0-8101-1353-8 (1354-6 paper).
Children of Zion is a historical documentary about Polish Jewish children who were deported to the Soviet Union with their families after the outbreak of World War II, evacuated to Iran during the second half of 1942, and subsequently arrived in Palestine. Out of the twelve to twenty thousand Polish children rescued from Central Asia, only 871 Polish Jewish children were rescued, although Jews represented between 30 and 50 percent of all Polish deportees. After their ...