Content Details
The Last of The U-Boats and The Angel of Istanbul
Duration: 52 mins
Language: Italian,French, Turkish
Subtitle: English, Turkish
Production Year: 2024
Format: HD
Director: Vincenzo Pergolizzi
Origin: Italy
SYNOPSIS
In the years of the Second World War, a bishop, representative of the Catholic community in Turkey, worked tirelessly to save Jews fleeing Nazism: Monsignor Angelo Roncalli, later Pope John XXIII, did his utmost to save thousands of Jews fleeing Nazism using incredible methods, stratagems, using all kinds of means and ways, kindly involving men of opposite backgrounds and factions. The 24,000 Jews rescued by Angelo Roncalli, declared by the German ambassador Von Papen in Turkey, are in reality far more numerous. On the trail of Jewish children made to leave by continuous trains to Palestine, of ships full of Jewish children made to pass through the Bosphorus, of false baptism certificates and of many other expedients of human and Christian charity, the figure of a man of God with a profound faith of boundless humanity is outlined.