Ahwaz, one of the oldest Persian cities was a temporary halting place for Polish refugees in their war-time peregrination. In 1942-1945, a transition camp was operated there to receive thousands of Polish soldiers, civil population and children, since that place opened to the routes to Polish military troops in Iraq and Palestine and mostly to civil refugee camps operated in Lebanon, India and Africa and other overseas.

The camp in Ahwaz was organized in early 1942, by British authorities, planning to admit the refugees from the Soviet Union and the transports of troops. Implicitly, it was a military camp (called Polish Camp) at the beginning, divided into Camps No. 1, 2 and 3.

The liquidation of the Military Camp of Evacuation followed the transport of Polish soldiers to the Middle East. Ahwaz became a new refugee center managed by the Officer of Hardstand and by the Agency of Representation Office of the Legate of Labor and Social Care of the Republic of Poland. Polish infant school, primary school and general education grammar school were established there, not to mention other organizations such as the Association of Polish Teachers, Scouting Organizations, the Branch of Culture and Education, English-Polish Organization, and Polish Library. Furthermore, the distribution of Polish press was organized. Polish camps closed in 1945. Not until January 30th, 1946, however, got the last Polish school in Ahwaz liquidated, thus closing the chapter of Polish exile in that city.

The toms of Poles, deceased during their stay in Ahwaz, started to appear in 1942 on the plot within the boundaries of the Catholic-Chaldean Cemetery. 102 Poles are buried there (80 civilians and 22 soldiers). The graves were marked with standard tombstones similarly as those in Tehran cemetery. In front of the burial grounds, there are two graves with crosses and without inscriptions.

A plate with an epitaph reading "In remembrance of the Poles dead far from their Fatherland in 1942-1945" was places only in 1965. The cemetery is poorly maintained and unattended-to.