One of my Israeli friends, as a child, was hidden in a French Orphanage by nuns, some of whom she said were anti Semetic in some of their comments, but risked their lives to save her and her sister.
When the Germans "inspected" the orphanage, the nuns would hide them behind the mattresses that were airing out to remove the odor of the children who wet the beds at night. The room was so smelly the Germans rarely checked it closely, so their lives were saved.
At the end of the war, they were reunited with her parents (who were hidden by French families separately... kids were noisy so few wanted to hide them).
And thirty years later, she went back to France and visited the orphanage, and one of the nuns gave her a few tiny items that she had left behind.
One of her sorrows was that when she was a child, she had no toys and not a lot of fun.
Her usband was saved because his family were in a Turkish refugee camp.Story here.
and they continue to house refugees today: the numbers are changing, but this Wikipedia article notes that Turkey has 3 million refugees from Syria.
the rescue of some 15,000 Turkish Jews from France, and even of some 100,000 Jews from Eastern Europe might well be considered as relatively insignificant in comparison. It was, however, very significant to the people who were rescued, and above all it showed that, as had been the case for more than five centuries, Turks and Jews continued to help each other in times of great crises.
more HERE. explains the reality vs the myths.
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