First evacuation of deportees from USSR 24 March – April 1942 from Krasnovodsk across the Caspian Sea to Pahlevi, Persia

Second evacuation of deportees from USSR 10 August – 1 September 1942 to Pahlevi

In Pahlevi tents were erected along the beaches for the refugees

Tehran – Delegation of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare established temporary camps for civilians

Approximately one third of civilians were children

Overland evacuation from Ashkhabad-Mashhad

The Polish Army concentrated in central Iraq

In Palestine Yunak schools, a Women’s Auxiliary Service and training centres were established

In Tehran, four Polish refugee camps were created (Numbers 1, 2 & 3, and Number 5 for the orphans)

In Isfahan the refugees were mostly orphans. The majority were sent on to Africa and India. Small groups of mainly orphans were sent to Mexico and New Zealand

By the end of 1943 approximately 33,000 civilians had passed through Iran

2,119 Polish refugees died in Iran

Remaining in Iran were 3,933 refugees in Tehran, 2,388 in Isfahan, 2,834 in Ahvaz and 66 in Mashhad

The remaining 4,300 refugees at the end of 1945 were evacuated to Baghdad and Beirut

From 1946 – 1950  the 6,000 refugees in Lebanon emigrated to G.B., Canada, Argentina, Poland, USA and other countries