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Abdol Hossein Sardari — The Iranian Schindler

At the outset of World War II Abdol Hussein Sardari was a minor bureaucrat working in the Iranian Consular Office in Paris. After the Germans invaded and occupied France in 1940 the ambassador of the office was recalled with most of his staff and relocated to Vichy France, leaving a small skeleton crew to manage diplomatic affairs in occupied Paris. Full diplomatic power was given to Sardari, regardless of the fact that he was inexperienced for the post.

in 1942 Nazi SS and Gestapo troops began the process of rounding up and deporting Jews in France to concentration camps in Germany and Eastern Europe. At the time many Iranian citizens were living in France, as the country was a popular destination for vacation and higher learning for many Iranians, among whom were many Iranian Jews. Originally, Iranian passports listed the person’s religion. One of Sardari’s first acts was to reissue new passports that did not list religion. From then on he worked tirelessly to protect Iranian Jews from persecution. When Nazi officials began harassing and persecuting suspected Iranian Jews, Sardari came up with a clever piece of bullshittery that beat the Nazi at their own race theory game. Under Nazi race theory, Iranians were considered Aryans and thus not subject to the Nuremberg Laws. Sardari explained that persecuted Iranian Jews were not really Jews, but an ancient Iranian sect called the “Djuguten” who were followers of the Prophet Moses. They were really Iranian Aryans who could be easily confused for Jews. The Nazi’s sought clarification from official race theorists and scholars, but a ruling on the validity of Sardari’s claims was never made and thus Nazi officials let it slide.

Eventually Iranian Jews began asking Sardari if he could help Jewish friends and colleagues who were not Iranian. Sardari began issuing Iranian passports to non-Iranian Jews in order to evacuate them from the country. Doing so was an act that went far beyond his diplomatic authority, however the Iranian government approved all of the passports issued by Sardari without question.  Sardari issued around 1,000 such passports. Each passport could cover an entire family, thus the lives Sardari saved could number in the thousands.

After World War II, Sardari faced hard luck and misfortune. During the Iranian Revolution his property was seized, his pension was suspended, and he was forced to flee the country. He died penniless and in exile in Nottingham, England in 1981.

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this post has fucked me up more than any other on this site

Okay but no, do you understand what happens to a caterpillar once it’s in its cocoon? It completely turns into goo. That’s right, GOO. The damn thing dissolves and the reforms into the butterfly. Even crazier, the wings of the butterfly are already inside the caterpillar, ready to go, just waiting to float around in some goo and then be a beautiful butterfly. The craziest part?!? A study was done where some caterpillars were exposed to a certain smell and then given an electric shock so eventually the caterpillar associated the smell with the shock. Well after those little hairy noodles came out of the their cocoons as butterflies, they exposed them to the smell again and the butterflies reacted super negatively, as if they were being shocked. A.K.A. not only is there wings floating around in that goo cocoon, there is also a brain, the same, unaltered brain as the caterpillar. The butterfly can recall its days as a caterpillar even after basically being turned into soup. And then it all somehow gets its shit together to be a stupid majestic little beast, and I can’t even remember where I put my damn phone.  

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reblog and make a wish!


this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

OH MY FUCKING GOD, IT’S BACK ON MY DASH.

THIS SHIT WORKS OKAY, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.

The last time I saw this on my dash, I didn’t think it would happen, so jokingly I wished I could go to a fun. concert.

AND GUESS WHAT, I WENT TO A FUCKING FUN. CONCERT.

THIS SHIT WORKS, TRY IT.

YOOOOOOO

I SAW THIS ON MY DASH THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT “ITS WORTH A TRY” SO I WISHED I COULD GET A 3DS

LITERALLY LIKE 4 DAYS LATER MY DAD SENT ME A PICTURE OF THE 3DS XL HE BOUGHT FOR ME WHILE I WAS AT SCHOOL

IM STILL FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS

holy fuck, I didn’t expect this to work, I was like psh, whatever it’s just a quick reblog, but I wished my Dad would actually respond back to me AND HE FUCKING DID A FEW DAYS LATER, I GOT A FUCKING TEXT FROM MY DAD TODAY WHO HASN’T SPOKEN OR RESPONDED TO ME IN MONTHS HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THIS MAGIC IT WORKS. 

I WANTED TO SEE MY BOYFRIEND AND I DIDN’T THINK I’D GET DAYS OFF BUT THIS WEEKEND I’M HEADING UP THERE??? THIS IS CRAZY SHIT 

SO LIKE I JOKINGLY WISHED FOR MY OWN LEN KAGAMINE AND THEN LIKE A WEEK LATER I GOT A LEN NENDOROID??? H ELP

WTF OKAY SO THIS SHOT ACTUALLY WORKS BECAUSE WHEN I WISHED, I HAD WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD LIKE ME BACK AND GUESS WHAT? I HAVE A BOYFRIEND NOW. WHAT THE HELLLLL?????

ok I’ve said this before but IM DOING IT AGAIN THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS, MY WISH DID COME TRUE SO I REBLOGED AGAIN AND SAID IT IN THE TAGS BUT THEN I WISHED FOR SMTH ELSE AND IT LITERALLY LITERALLY HAPPENED LIKE A COUPLE DAYS LATER WHAT THE HELL SO NOW IM WRITING THIS HERE FOR YOU BC I DONT BELIEVE IN THIS CRAP BUT STILL IT’S AN AWFULLY BIG COINCIDENCE

THE BOY I FELL I LOVE WITH LEFT TO TRAVEL THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN GONE NOW FOR 3 MONTHS. WE HAVENT SPOKEN SINCE BECAUSE I DIDNT WANT TO MAKE HIM FEEL TRAPPED TO ME AND NOT ENJOY HIS TIME SO I WAITED FOR HIM TO CONTACT ME FIRST. I SAW THIS ON A PARTICULARLY LOW DAY WHEN I WAS MISSING HIM SO MUCH I CRIED FROM THE PAIN, GUYS I REALLY LOVE HIM, SO I THOUGHT MEH WHAT THE FUCK, AND WISHED HE WOULD JUST LET ME KNOW HE WAS OKAY.

GUYS.

HE FUCKING CALLED ME 20 MINUTES LATER

20 FUCKNG. MINUTES. LATER.

GOOD THINGS DO HAPPEN. AND ITS IN THIS POST.

I wish for someone to leave something in my ask.

OKAY SO I ASKED FOR A HEDGEHOG AND NOW GUESS WHO HAS A PET HEDGEHOG

shit I’m just reblogging this for the neato gif
chill

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