Turkish Passport Page #5

with the Nazis and delivered passports to us

we would never have been able to travel to Turkey

and would have been arrested and deported.

I owe my life to them, that is undeniable

That is undeniable

Later we learned that eight trains left from Paris.

Two each in February, March, April and May.

The last one left in May.

We left on the last one or the one before last.

And one day we arrived in Istanbul,

fear was no longer there.

I left France as a fearful little girl.

I came to a warm country

that was enlightened in every sense of the word.

I spent an unforgettable two years there.

We no longer feared.

Life became again as it had been before

Normal.

Life for everyone.

No body ask you if you were Jewish, Catholic

Protestant or Muslim.

You were free.

I am forever grateful.

were reborn restarded our lives that day.

I can never forget the debt I owe to Turkey.

It is my second homeland.

I am Turkish and French . .

not French and Turkish.

Because I was reborn on the 24 April 1944.

If I had heen French, I wouldn't be live today.

Being Turkish saved my life.

I am quite certain of that.

I'm grateful because if my family hadn't then under

Turkey's protection and boarded that train

we could have been taken in one of the last raids.

We would not be alive now.

My father would tell us:

"Don't forget throughout your life that

the Turks saved our lives."

If my mother and the Turkish Consulate hadn't

intervened forcefully with the Germans

I would be dead now

and not talking to you about these events.

For me, being alive is a miracle.

When you look at the suffering

I could have died like all the others.

Thank you because my testimony

will tell posterity what happened.

It will show people really lived through these events,

it wasn't just imagined.

Everyone should know we owe being

here today to the Turkish government.

We have a duty to tell

this to our children, to all people.

They must know we are here today because

The Turkish government saved

the lives of Turkish Jews.

I explain what happened to me.

How these trains that left Paris

crossed Europe in flames and

brought us to this heaven of peace in Istanbul.

Few people know this, no one understands this.

I don't think that I can say anything more about this.

Thank you very much.

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