Documentary about little-known heroism screens at Jewish film festival in Ashkelon.
By Judy Maltz
Hareetz | Oct.24, 2012
Between 1941 and 1944, a group of Turkish diplomats helped hundreds,
perhaps even thousands, of European Jews escape near certain death at
the hands of the Nazis.
It is one of the lesser-known stories of Holocaust rescue. But 70 years
after the fact, details of this extraordinary saga are beginning to
emerge with the release of the new documentary film, "The Turkish
Passport."
The 90-minute film, which premiered in Israel last week at the Jewish
Eye World Jewish Film Festival in Ashkelon, chronicles the efforts of a
group of close to 20 Turkish ambassadors and consuls - stationed in
Paris, Marseille, Budapest, Prague, Varna, Hamburg and Rhodes - to save
the lives of Jews of Turkish descent in Nazi-occupied Europe. Among
these diplomats was Necdet Kent, the Turkish consul in Marseille from
1940 to 1945, whose son, Muhtar Kent, is today the chairman and chief
executive of Coca-Cola.
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