My little Corner of the World

In 1942, it was possible to transfer about 1000 Jewish refugee children from Russia (they got there with their families from Eastern-Europe) to different ports in Iran, and they were gathered in a special camp in Teheran, to be transported to India, Yemen and finally Palestine about a year later. Those children are known as "The Teheran Children" . Iran, of course, had nothing active to do with this operation, organized by Jewish institutions and funded by Jewish philantropists, but the irony is there all the same.
Pictures (sorry, Hebrew)
And more on the subject from Yad Vashem (the Israeli holocaust memorial and archive).