Language:
French
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
Les Cahiers du Judaïsme
Angaben zur Quelle:
32 (2011) 53-61
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Sephardim
Abstract:
Discusses contradictory Turkish practices during World War II regarding protection of Jews of Turkish origin in occupied Europe. Several hunded were rescued thanks to consular intervention; thousand were, however, deported due to lack of Turkish aid. Focusing on France, shows that Turkish consulates consistently came to the aid of arrested Turkish Jews holding certificates of citizenship, but not all Jews of Turkish origin had valid papers. A Turkish national residing abroad had to renew his certificate yearly, and lost his citizenship if this had not been done for five years. In addition, many Jews of Turkish origin were not officially recognized as Turks, since they had failed, for various reasons, to take the necessary actions. Many Jews had also lost their Turkish citizenship in the Turkization process of the 1920s-30s. Estimates that, of the ca. 7,000 Sephardic Jews who were deported from France, half were of Turkish origin.
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