Tag Archives: Lina Amato

I read with interest the article entitled «A Survivor’s Story of Holocaust Heroism: Lina Amato in your most recent issue. Selahattin Ülkümen is certainly a hero for all times. And that is why Yad Vashem has declared him to be a Righteous among the Nations. And needless to say, I …

SATURDAY marked Holocaust Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi World War II concentration and death camps, by the Red Army on January 27, 1945. In the decades since, numerous stories have emerged of heroes who hid or helped Jews escape certain death in …

«The Story Of Lina Amato» Filmmaker, Johnathan Andrews, presents the true story of Lina Kantor (Amato), one of the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust now residing in Cape Town, South Africa. This extraordinary documentary film explores the rare account of how the interventions of the Turkish Consul-General on Rhodes …