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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nTuesday, October 22, 2024 3:00 pm to 5:00
  pm \n 200B \n Bancroft \n 4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1C1 \n\nDescr
 iption: \nWhat was Iran’s place in the Second World War? What role did the
  country play in stories of Holocaust survival?Both Iran’s history during 
 the war and the important role the country played as a site of refuge from
  the Holocaust are largely unknown. This panel delves into this research a
 nd the important questions it raises. Occupied by Great Britain, the Sovi
 et Union and the United States after 1941-42, Iran was arguably the Secon
 d World War’s most important non-combatant zone. As a jointly-governed spa
 ce, it became a place of safety for thousands of wartime refugees, inclu
 ding Jewish refugees seeking to escape Nazism and the Holocaust.  Some of 
 these refugee streams are well known (the “Children of Tehran”), others a
 re not, and much is currently being discovered.The panelists will present
  new research in this area and its aim to forge new connections between Ir
 anian Studies and Holocaust Studies. They will discuss the research consul
 tation on “Iran, the Holocaust and the Second World War,” convened at th
 e United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in September 2024, and 
 the Sardari Project (started in 2020 at the USHMM) out of which it grew. H
 ow the research communities and resources located at the University of Tor
 onto can contribute to this project going forward will also be discussed.R
 egister for online participation via Zoom.Bios:Arash Azizi is a writer and
  historian. He is a visiting fellow at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pa
 rdee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a contributing wr
 iter at the Atlantic. His writings and commentary on politics, history an
 d cinema have appeared in numerous outlets including the New York Times, 
 the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journ
 al, Newsweek, Haaretz and the Toronto Star. The author of The Shadow Com
 mander: Soleimani, the US and Iran’s Global Ambitions (Oneworld, 2020),
  he is a co-convenor of the research consultation “Iran, the Holocaust an
 d World War II” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.Jennifer Je
 nkins is a global and German historian who writes on Iran from the perspec
 tives of international diplomacy and political economy. An Associate Profe
 ssor and Canada Research Chair in German History at the University of Toro
 nto, she has published widely on German-Iranian connections.  She is curr
 ently finishing a book-length study, The Persian Question: Germany, Iran
  and the Near East in the Age of Empire and is planning to write her next 
 book on the 1943 wartime conference in Tehran in the context of the Second
  World War and the Holocaust.Lior Sternfeld is an Associate Professor of H
 istory and Jewish Studies at Pe\n State University. He is the author of Be
 tween Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran (Stanford 
 University Press, 2018), which examines, against the backdrop of Irania
 n nationalism, Zionism, and constitutionalism, the development and inte
 gration of Jewish communities in Iran into the nation-building projects of
  the last century. He is a co-convenor of the research consultation “Iran\
 , the Holocaust and World War II” at the United States Holocaust Memorial 
 Museum.  \n4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1C1 \n\nCategories \n Lecture
  \n\nAudiences \n All
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LOCATION:4 Bancroft Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1C1
SUMMARY:Iran, the Holocaust and World War Two
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