An Ambassador and A Mensch: The story of a Turkish Diplomat in Vichy France

by Arnold Reisman

This book reveals the little known role played by a Turkish diplomat, Behi Erkin, Ambassador to France, who with his staff saved Turkish Jews living in France from certain death during World War II. Since Stanford Shaw first chronicled this episode in 1993, it has been uniformly assumed that the Turkish government in Ankara was solidly behind Erkin's actions. The totality of recent findings of contemporaneous documents from various US government...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1450558127
• ISBN13: 9781450558129
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"