| LC control no. | no2012131403 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sardari, Abdol-Hossein, 1914-1981 |
| Biography/History note | Abdol-Hossein Sardari, b. in Tehran in 1914 into a wealthy aristocraticy family. He was a diplomat with a law degree from University of Geneva; doctoral dissertation on nineteenth-century labour market in Switzerland. During 1940-1942 he saved thousands of Iranian Jews and others from persecusion and death by gaining exemptions from Nazi race laws and helping them escape France in 1940 whilst working in Iran's diplomatic mission in Paris, France. He was recalled to Theran in 1952 to face charges of misconduct and embezzlement relating to wartime issuing of passports. He cleared his name in 1955 and resumed his diplomatic career, eventually retiring to London where he died in 1981. He received recognition for his humanitarian work posthumously on 19 April 2004 at the Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, Calif. |
| Located | Paris, France |
| Place of birth | Tehran, Iran |
| Place of death | London, England |
| Affiliation | Université de Genève Simon Wiesenthal Center |
| Profession or occupation | Diplomat |
| Found in | In the lion's shadow, 2011: t.p. (Abdol-Hossein Sardari) front flap (Abdol-Hossein was born into a privileged Iranian family but had a hard life from early childhood) p. 3 etc. (Abdol-Hossein Sardari, b. in Tehran in 1914 into a wealthy aristocraticy family. He was a diplomat with a law degree from University of Geneva; doctoral dissertation on nineteenth-century labour market in Switzerland. During 1940-1942 he saved thousands of Iranian Jews and others from persecusion and death by gaining exemptions from Nazi race laws and helping them escape France in 1940 whilst working in Iran's diplomatic mission in Paris, France. He was recalled to Theran in 1952 to face charges of misconduct and embezzlement relating to wartime issuing of passports. He cleared his name in 1955 and resumed his diplomatic career, eventually retiring to London where he died in 1981. He received recognition for his humanitarian work posthumously on 19 April 2004 at the Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, Calif.) |
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