120,000 Poles who entered Iran / the only survivor of World War II – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
Sada-e Azadi correspondent Amir Hoshang Danaei, who has been working in Poland for many years, recently made a documentary called “Wave of Destiny” about which he told Mehr: I have been a Sada-e Azadi correspondent in Kazakhstan and Poland for 19 years. I do all the informing and reporting work to produce a TV report, including subject search, filming, text and speech writing, editing, and final output.
Referring to the documentary he made and the presence of Poles at a historical moment in Iran, he said: “In the historical and political relations between Iran and Poland, the most important point was the arrival of Polish refugees in Iran during World War II and caused the Poles to Forced immigration to Iran.
Danaei added: The year 1401 is the 80th anniversary of this event. This is the first time that Europeans have been forced to emigrate to Iran due to the difficult situation they endured, at a time when Iran was experiencing bad conditions such as World War II, occupation, famine and typhus.
Referring to the number of Polish immigrants to Iran, the journalist and documentary filmmaker said: “Iran had embraced the 120,000 Poles who were occupied by the Soviet Union and deported to a labor camp in Siberia called Gulak.” And it is warmly welcomed, some of them stay in Iran and get married and their generation is still alive and some of them return to Poland. Of the 120,000 people who entered Iran at the time, only one is now in Iran, over 90 years old, living in a nursing home and the rest in Poland, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
RFE / RL correspondent in Poland continued: Polish immigrants in Iran are buried in seven private cemeteries in the cities of Tehran, Bandar Anzali, Isfahan, Mashhad and Khorramshahr. Nearly 2,000 Polish immigrants are buried in Dolab Cemetery in the south of Tehran.
Danaei reminded about the details of the documentary “Wave of Destiny”: In this documentary, conversations and pictures about the 80th anniversary of this historical event provide information about it, interviews with the Polish ambassador to Iran, scholars of contemporary history, Polish scholars, Iranologists, previous ambassadors And the current situation in Iran in Poland and the Polish immigrant family provide information about this historic migration.
Danaei also said about the process of making the documentary: The making and filming of this documentary took about 40 days from the beginning to the final editing. This is the first time that Sada-e Azadi News Agency is making an investigative news documentary because Sada-e Azadi News Agency does not have a mission to produce documentaries, but at my suggestion to the news agency managers, they also welcomed this issue. Is.
This documentary is to be shown first to students, professors, history researchers and officials of the Polish Embassy in Iran at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Tehran, and then it will be broadcast on SIMA channels.
Factors of documentary production include; Writer, Editor and Director: Amir Hoshang Danaei, Photographer: Heshmatollah Hamedinejad, Sound Recording and Refining: Mehdi Danaei, Color Correction and Visual Effects: Davood Najibi, Producer: RFE / RL.