The Sunday Times feature an interesting piece on the Arabs who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust. It’s a story that has never been told and which would be of interest, I am sure, to both Arabs and Jews alike.
“I wanted to look at the long reaches of the Holocaust. Persecution was not just a European story. I wanted to investigate what happened to Jews living among Arabs when the Nazis arrived. Their stories have been overlooked for far too long.” He reminds us that had allied troops not driven the Germans from the African continent in 1943, then the 2,000-year-old Jewish communities of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and maybe Egypt and Palestine too, might have met the fate of their brothers in Europe.
The book likes like it will make fascinating reading. One can find lectures from the author and various reviews here.
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[...] Austrolabe posted an article about Arabs risking their lives to save some Jews during the Holocaust. I also found this article in US News and World Report Since 1963, Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, has honored more than 21,000 people for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. None have been Arab, and little has been written about the persecution of Jews in the Middle East and North Africa during World War II. It is a gap Robert Satloff, the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, tackles in his new book, Among the Righteous, where he looks for hope in a region rife with Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. [...]
Been there, done that. Boy, you guys are slow.
I had a similar post on this topic back in October; see Arab Heroes of the Holocaust.
Thanks for the article. I learned something today.
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