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Turkey and the Holocaust - Turkey's Role in Rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi Persecution, 1933-1945 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,627
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Turkey and the Holocaust - Turkey's Role in Rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi Persecution, 1933-1945 (Hardcover)

Stanford J. Shaw

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The neutrality maintained by Turkey during most of World War II allowed it to rescue thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in the Nazi-occupied or collaborating countries of Europe. In France, the Turkish consels in Paris and Marseilles intervened to protect Turkish Jews from the 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.;Despite opposition from both the Nazis and the British, morever, the Turkish government instructed its diplomats in Eastern Europe to provide all possible assistance to Jews being persecuted during the Holocaust, allowed the Jewish Agency and other rescue groups to operate openly from offices in Istanbul, enabling them to send money and supplies to Eastern Europe, and permitted almost 100,000 East European Jews to transit through Turkey on their way to Palestine. This book is based on research in Turkish diplomatic archives in Ankara and Paris as well as i

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 1993
First published: 1993
Authors: Stanford J. Shaw
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-58234-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
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LSN: 0-333-58234-9
Barcode: 9780333582343

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