Turkey and the Holocaust: Turkey's Role in Rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi Persecution, 1933-1945

by Stanford J. Shaw

Book Overview

More than half a century of investigation and analysis have yielded a vast literature on the events, participants and motivations surrounding Nazi persecution of Jews. But very little is known about the efforts made by Turkey, a neutral country and traditionally a haven for persecuted Jews, to rescue European Jewry during the Holocaust. Bringing to light for the first time documents buried in the archives of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, the National...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814779603
• ISBN13: 9780814779606
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"