Last Call for the Dining Car
23Oct09
Our package on the book is now up on the Telegraph site, combining a shortened version of my introduction, a few extracts and a greatly extended playlist of songs about trains (and the tube). Thanks again for all the suggestions.
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Dear Mr. Kerr,
Your interesting book includes the story of Necdet Kent, who back in 1943 was a young Turkish diplomat stationed in Marseilles.
You’re quoting the Telegraph’s obituary, but I must caution you that there is not one single objective evidence to back-up Mr. Kent’s own testimony, whereby he had boarded a deportation train and refused to get off until he succeeded in liberating the Jews that were en route to their deaths.
Yad Vashem as well as other major institutions have reviewed this case but it was impossible to verify Mr. Kent’s story. This is very strange. If he really saved tens of Jews, it is hard to understand how come that no witness has ever come forward and corroborated such a major feat.
Yours sincerely,
Georges Bund
Thanks for your comment, Mr Bund. I have passed it on to my colleagues on the obituaries desk of The Daily Telegraph.