Among the names Yad Vashem honours as Righteous Among the Nations is Selahattin Ülkümen.
The record lists Selahattin Ülkümen as Turkish diplomat (1914–2003).
Selahattin Ülkümen was born at Antakya in 1914. His recorded nationality is Turkey.
By occupation Selahattin Ülkümen was diplomat - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Rescue during the Holocaust was not a grand gesture but a sequence of small, repeatable risks taken over months or years.
Recognition: Righteous Among the Nations (1989).
Selahattin Ülkümen died in 2003, aged 89. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1989
- Worked as diplomat
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