Necdet Kent
Diplomat, Deceased Person
1911 – 2002
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Who was Necdet Kent?
İsmail Necdet Kent was a Turkish diplomat who risked his life to save Jews during World War II. While vice-consul in Marseilles, France between 1941 and 1944, he gave documents of citizenship to dozens of Turkish Jews living in France who did not have proper identity papers, to save them from deportation to the Nazi gas chambers.
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1911
Turkey - Children
- Religion
- Islam
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
- Died
- Sep 20, 2002
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on July 23, 2013
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