Thursday, September 25, 2014

How Ira Hirschmann and the future Pope John XXIII ushered Jewish refugees through Turkey to Palestine during World War II.

Refugees of the Bosphorus

Istanbul, 1944: A Bloomingdale’s executive and a future Pope teamed with Jewish intelligence agents to save hundreds of Eastern European Jews.

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