Recounting El Salvador's Holocaust rescue
Photo credit: Barry Sloan | Ina Soep Polak who received a citizenship certificate from the Salvadoran government during World War II, helping her to escape and survive the Holocaust, speaks beside Salvadoran Vice Consul Miguel Alas Sevillano during a program on the topic at Temple Israel of Great Neck Sunday. (Jan. 29, 2012)
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It was an unlikely friendship between a Jewish businessman from Romania and a Salvadoran diplomat that paved the way for a little-known rescue mission to save an estimated 30,000 Jews from the Holocaust.
The story of that lifesaving bond, forged in the years leading up to World War II, was honored Sunday at a Great Neck synagogue.
Col. Jose Arturo Castellanos, El Salvador's consul general...
