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

By Stanford J. Shaw

Book Overview

The neutrality maintained by Turkey during most of the Second World War enabled it to rescue thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in the Nazi-occupied or collaborating countries of Europe. This book shows how in France, the Turkish consuls in Paris and Marseilles intervened to protect Turkish Jews from application of anti-Jewish laws introduced both by the German occupying authorities and the Vichy government and rescued them from concentration camps, getting them off trains destined for the extermination chambers in the East, and arranging train caravans and other special transportation to take them through Nazi-occupied territory to safety in Turkey. 'an important and unique addition to the vast scholarship available on that tragic era' Rabbi Abraham Cooper

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349130435
• ISBN13: 9781349130436
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"