Passing Time

TO GO WITH STORY TITLED FORGOTTEN JOURNEY–Polish orphans and their caretakers pose for a photograph at one of the hostels that housed them in the city of Isfahan in Iran during World War II in this undated file photo. Up to 300,000 Polish exiles are estimated to have arrived in Iran during the war after being released from hard-labor camps in Siberia. More than 13,000 of the refugees were children, many of them orphans whose parents had died on the way. In Russia, starving mothers had pushed their children onto passing trains to Iran in hopesof saving them.(AP Photo/STR)