On July 19, 1944, all Jewish men on the island of Rhodes were ordered to report to the German headquarters in the city of Rhodes (Italy, now Greece), including Albert Franko. One day later, all Jewish women and children had to report there. The Jews were held in the German command headquarters outside the old town center for three days. When the approximately 1,800 people were to be deported from Rhodes, the Turkish diplomat Salahattin Ülkümen saved Albert Franko from being taken to Auschwitz from Piraeus (Greece) by removing him from the deportation train. Ülkümen had learned shortly before that Franko’s wife held a Turkish passport. He claimed that meant Turkish law also recognized Franko as Turkish—although this was not the case—and thus rescued him.