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When Turkish diplomats saved Jews from the Nazis

Documentary about little-known heroism screens at Jewish film festival in Ashkelon.

By Judy Maltz | 01:45 24.10.12 |

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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.

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