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Sattareh Farman Farmaian – The social worker Princess (Part two)

August 9, 2020 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. After 32 days, she arrived in Los Angeles – now she just needed to reach Ohio. Along with a handful of other passengers who had no one to pick them up, she was taken in by the Red Cross. A friend of her father, Dr Jordan, lived in Pasadena and came [read more]

Sattareh Farman Farmaian – The social worker Princess (Part one)

August 8, 2020 Moniek Bloks 0

Sattareh Farman Farmaian was born on 23 December 1921 as the daughter of Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma, a grandson of the Qajar Crown Prince Abbas Mirza, and Massumeh Khanum Tafreshi, the third of his eight wives. She was born in Shiraz, during the dying days of the Qajar dynasty, in present-day Iran. She was the [read more]