برنامه های کنفرانس بین المللی در جستجوی خانه دوم، هفتاد و پنجمین سالگرد مهاجرت لهستانیها به ایران

The International Conference
Cultural Talks between Iran and Poland
In Quest of a Second Home
75th Anniversary of the Polish Exodus to Iran
Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran
November 21, 2017
 
Co-Organizers:
Negarestan-e Andisheh Institute (cins.ir)
Embassy of The Republic of Poland (teheran.msz.gov.pl)
University of Tehran, Faculty of Literature and Humanities (ut.ac.ir)
 
Partners:
Department of Iranian Studies, Jagiellonian University (uj.edu.pl)
Islamic Culture and Communication Organization (icro.ir)
National Library and Archives of I.R Iran (nlai.ir)
Institute of Culture, Arts and Communication (ricac)
Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (acecr)
Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (Cultural Department)
Institute for Cultural and Social Studies (iscs)
 
 
Preface
In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, marking the beginning of World War II. As part of Germany’s nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, eastern Poland was occupied and annexed by the USSR.
Approximately 1.25 million Poles were deported to various parts of the Soviet Union, including half a million “socially dangerous” Poles who were packed into trains and shipped to labor camps in Kazakhstan and Siberia. Thousands died of exhaustion, disease and malnutrition.
When Germany reneged on its pact and invaded the Soviet Union less than two years later, the Soviets were compelled to side with the Allies. An agreement was signed to reestablish the Polish state and form an army from the Poles held in the USSR.
Polish prisoners were told they were now free to join the new army, which was assembling in the critical supply corridor of Iran, then under occupation by Soviet and British forces.
From across the country, thousands of starving men, women and children slowly made their way to a hope of refuge in Iran. Crossing the Caspian Sea in crowded boats, over 116,000 Poles made it to Iran. Most landed in the port city of Pahlevi, where they were fed and quarantined — malaria, typhus and starvation-related ailments were widespread. Many died and were buried there.
The evacuation of the Polish people from the USSR lasted from March 24, 1942 for one week, and then again from August 10, 1942 until the beginning of September. In the first stage, over 30,000 military personnel, and about 11,000 children left Krasnovodsk by sea for Pahlavi. In the second stage of evacuation from the interior, over 43,000 military personnel and about 25,000 civilians left with General Władysław Anders across the Caspian Sea to Iran. About one third of the civilians were children. A smaller-scale evacuation to Ashkhabad-Mashhad followed, including the large and final group of civilians.
On March 19, 1942, General Władysław Anders ordered the evacuation of Polish soldiers and civilians who lived next to army camps. Between March 24 and April 4, 33,069 soldiers left the Soviet Union for Iran, as well as 10,789 civilians, including 3,100 children. This was a small fraction of the approximately 1.7 million Polish citizens who had been arrested by the Soviets at the beginning of the war. Most Poles were forced to stay in the Soviet Union. Polish soldiers and civilians who left stayed in Iranian camps at Pahlevi and Mashhad, as well as Tehran.
During the second evacuation 69,247 persons left the Soviet Union, including 25,501 civilians (9,633 children). Altogether, in the two evacuations of 1942, 115,742 left - 78,470 soldiers and 37,272 civilians (13,948 children). Approximately 90% of them were Polish, with most of the remaining ones Jewish.
Those who survived were transported to Tehran, where they were warmly welcomed by the Iranian government. Buildings were repurposed to house them, and Polish schools, businesses, and cultural organizations were established. People who had spent years in freezing and disease-ridden conditions now had clean beds and plenty of food.
Most of the refugees signed up to fight in the new Polish army, while many, including thousands of orphans whose parents had died or desperately put them on trains bound for Iran, settled into life in Iran for the remainder of the war.
While many of the refugees were eventually moved on to temporary settlements in other countries, a few decided to stay in Iran permanently, marrying Iranian spouses and starting families.
In order to discuss the multi facial aspects of the history of Iranian-Polish relationships in the case of 75th Anniversary of the Polish Exodus to Iran, the Institute of Negarestan-e Andisheh, the embassy of Republic of Poland in Iran, Faculty of Literature & Humanities  at University of Tehran, Iranian Studies Department at the university of Jagiellonian in cooperation with several others Iranian research centers and institutions decided to hold an International Conference entitled “In Quest of a Second Home”.
 
Opening
Ferdowsi Hall
09:00 - 12:00      
- National Anthem of Iran and Poland
- Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi, Chancellor of the University of Tehran
- Hamed Kazemzadeh, Executive Report (Negarestan-e Andisheh Institute)
- Ashraf Boroujerdi, Director of the National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI)
- Abuzar Ebrahimi Turkman, Director of Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), Deputy of Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance
- Patrycja Özcan-Karolewska, The Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Iran
- Anna Maria Anders, Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
- Unveiling Ceremony of the Book: Historical & Cultural Interactions of Poland & Iran
Iranian - Polish Music Performance, Composer: Mohammad Rasouli, Singer: Ivonna Novicka
- Dariush Rahmanian, Academic Secretary of Conference
- Krzysztof Olendzki, Director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (AMI)
- Seyed Kazem Sajjadpour, Head of the Center for International Education and Research, Senior Advisor of Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Theater Performance - Metragh Group              Director: Maryam Jalili
Memoir photo in the Ferdowsi Hall Scene
 
Lunch
 
1st Parallel Session
Abbas Eghbal Hall
13:30 - 15:30      
Panel Chair: Hassan Hazrati
- Renata Rusek-Kowalska: From A World Apart to the Miracle in Isfahan
- Kaveh Bayat: Liberated Poland and its Iranian friends; 1942
- Anna Krasnowolska: Tehran of Poles in World War II
- Majid Tafreshi: The Iranian warlords, the host of Polish refugees
- Mateusz Kłagisz: Polish refugees in the territory of Iran
- Alireza Dolatshahi: Poles and the Iranian society
- Discussion
 
Coffee Break
 
2nd Parallel Session
Abbas Eghbal Hall
16:00 - 18:00      
Panel Chair: Hassan Zandieh
- Ivonna Novicka: Did the Polish ‘Isfahanians’ Speak Persian?
- Ali Shahidi: The Polish Society for Iranian Studies
- Stanisław Jaśkowski: Professor Machalski and the influence of the Poles on Iranian industry
- Reza Azari Shahrezaei: The Polish government in the press of the Iranian Tudeh Party (1941-44)
- Kinga Paraskiewicz: Machalski: founder of Iranian Studies in Cracow
- Reza Nikpour: Polish residents in Iran
- Discussion
 
Ending Remarks:
- Anna Krasnowolska, Elaheh Koulaei, Dariush Rahmanian, Shahram Yousefifar
 
Film Screening
Kamal Hall
13:30 - 18:00      
 
documentary movie: Madame
Director: Narges Kharaghani
Head of Session: Ali Kalirad       
 
Coffee Break
 
documentary movie: The Lost Requiem
Director: Khosrow Sinai
Head of Session: Mohammad Moghaddam                        
 
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