Turkey and the Jews

TURKEY RESCUES 115,000 JEWS FROM FRANCE, CYPRESS, HUNGARY & EASTERN EUROPE

( Thanks to Mr.Behic Tiryakioglu for sharing this reference 12-03-07)

While six millions Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, the rescue of some 15,000 Turkish Jews from France, and even of some 100,000 Jews from Eastern Europe might well be considered as relatively insignificant in comparison. It was, however, very significant to the people who were rescued, and above all it showed that, as had been the case for more than five centuries, Turks and Jews continued to help each other in times of great crises.
Stanford J. Shaw

Stanford J. Shaw* Professor Emeritus of Turkish History, University of California Los Angeles & Professor of Turkish History, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
(* deceased 2006)

Article

• Shaw, Stanford J.( 1991) The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. New York University Press
• Shaw, Stanford J.( 1992) Turkey and the Holocaust: Turkey's role in rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi persecution, 1933-1945
  Macmillan, London & New York University Press
• Shaw, Stanford J.(2001) Turkey and the Jews of Europe During WWII.
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