Robert Satloff - Muslim Heroes of the Holocaust

In the above clip, author and Middle East policy expert Robert Satloff discusses several stories in which North African Muslims helped Jews hide from and escape persecution by the Nazis during the Second World War. It's not well-known in the West that some North African countries, especially Morocco, have large Jewish populations due to the fact that they had to flee Christian persecution in Europe—especially Spain during the Reconquista. Unfortunately for them, Adolf Hitler decided to invade North Africa, thus extending his plan to exterminate the Jews (i.e. The Holocaust) across the Mediterranean.

The excerpt above seems to be taken from a lecture that Satloff, executive director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, gave regarding his new book, Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands. For those interested in learning more about this gifted historian and his ground-breaking book, NPR has an excerpt that can be found here.

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