The Teheran Operation: The Rescue of Jewish Children from the Nazis: based on the biographical sketches of David and Rachel Laor

With skillfully evocative descriptions, Devora Omer recounts the suffering of David and Rachel and the awful events that lead from the battlefields of Poland, across Russia's frozen wastes and primeval Siberian forests, enduring conditions of forced labour, hunger, disease and mortal danger until they reach - Teheran. David and Rachel are the two young Jews who separately endure their anguish until they meet and fall in love in Teheran, where he is the director of the Teheran Children's Refugee Station and she is a counsellor at the Jewish orphanage established to receive destitute refugee children arriving in Persia. This is the story of the perilous sea journey to Palestine, the haven and homeland they longed for.