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«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 …

The excerpt from the documentary film The Rescuers introduces the viewer to the events that led to the Nazi decision to murder the small Jewish community living on the island of Rhodes and the efforts by the Turkish ambassador to the island, Selahattin Ülkümen, to rescue some of them. The clip features …

The story of the rescuer Selahattin Ülkümen in Rhodes. Courtesy of Michael King Productions