Title: Last train to Istanbul
Description: Turkey has long been a safe haven for Jews, marriage between a high-ranking Muslim girl and a Jewish boy is strictly forbidden. But Selva and Rafael defy their parents and marry, fleeing to Paris in hopes of a better life, only to find themselves trapped in the path of the invading Nazis. A handful of courageous Turkish diplomats, protected only by the tenuous neutrality of their homeland, hatch a daring plot to spirit the exiled lovers and hundreds of innocent Jews to safety.
Subjects: Jews, Interfaith marriage, Rescue, World War, 1939-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), History, Fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Young women, fiction, Nazis, fiction, France, fiction, Istanbul (turkey), fiction
Places: Turkey, France
Time periods: German occupation, 1940-1945