Tehran was the heart of Polish evacuation activity and the center of all the movements of assure appropriate conditions of stay and evacuation of thousands of refugees under the management of the Representation Office of the Ministry of Labor and Social Care of the Republic of Poland.

Dulab Polish Cemetery in the eastern suburbs of Tehran covers three fourths of the area of catholic cemetery in this city. The remaining part is a catholic “international” cemetery, embracing the graves of English, Czechs, French, Germans, Armenians and Italians. As a property of the Government of France, it is managed by the embassies of France and Italy and by the Archbishopric of Roman-Catholic Church in Iran. The Polish part itself is managed by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tehran on the basis of a notary act of property issued by Iranian Ministry of Justice to the Polish authorities of those days in 1943.

Polish cemetery in Tehran is the main and the largest place of burial of Polish refugees in Iran, in the period of World War II. There are tombs of 1937 poles, including 409 soldiers and 528 civilians. Apart from 45 persons buried past 1945, the deceased are refugees from the territory of Soviet Union in the period from 1942 to 1944. They passed away in hospitals and evacuation camps in Tehran. The reasons of most of the demises were epidemic disease and general exhaustion, caused by distressing experience in Soviet lagers. Major parts of the departed were newborn children.

Polish part of the cemetery is remarkable for two stone stands, one of them being engraved with the images representing the Jagellionian eagle and the Virtuti Military War. A lane lined with pine trees leads to this part of cemetery; it extends farther inside arriving to a monumental statue topped with an iron cross. On front of the statue, a commemorative stone plate with engraved emblem of the Republic of Poland bears on inscription reading: ”In remembrance of Polish expatriates having stayed here in God forever on their way to Fatherland. 1942-1944.” There are plates with identical inscriptions in French and Persian on the backside of the statue.

Around the statue, being the central element of the cemetery, burial grounds spread over with rows of graves. Every row includes a dozen of graves in pale cement plate, engraved with durable marking with a symbol of cross, name and first name, date of birth and death, and additionally with military grade in the case of soldiers. The cemetery is well maintained and it has subject to major repair works.

Furthermore, the cemetery is a place of burial of General Antoni Radziwill de Borowski (deceased January 21, 1898) and architect Professor Leszek Horodecki (deceased 3, 1930).