Holocaust Education week in Toronto – Conference: AN AMBASSADOR AND A MENTSCH: THE STORY OF A TURKISH DIPLOMAT IN VICHY FRANCE

 

 

 
Sunday November 07, 2010
10:00 a.m.
Temple Sinai Congregation
210 Wilson Avenue Toronto 

 

In his new book, ARNOLD REISMAN, PhD, PE, reveals the little-known role played by Turkish diplomat Behiç Erkin, who was Ambassador to France during the Second World War. Together with his staff, he saved Turkish Jews living in France from certain death. Recent findings of documents from various U.S. Government archives confirm that the intervention on behalf of French Jews with Turkish origins was not the policy of the Turkish Government, but the determined undertaking of members of the Turkish diplomatic corps in France.
Dr. Reisman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He will be available for book signing after the lecture at a public reception.

 

A Cantor Severin Weingort Holocaust Education Lecture.
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