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Among the Righteous

Published: 09/4/10

Holocaust, 'Righteous Arabs,' and N.Y. Mosque: Filmmaker's Message For Troubled Time

By  David Gibson - Politics Daily
Holocaust, 'Righteous Arabs,' and N.Y. Mosque: Filmmaker's Message For Troubled Time

A commission of the Holocaust Museum in Israel, Yad Vashem, is deciding whether to list a Tunisian man as the first Arab to be named one of the "Righteous Among the Nations" -- the designation given to the few non-Jews who risked everything during the Holocaust to save Jews from death. Oskar Schindler of "Schindler's List" fame would be one of the most recognizable of the Righteous, and Yad Vashem's Commission on the Righteous has listed 22,000 others from 44 nations. None of them Arabs -- yet. Khaled Abdul Wahab could be the first. He was a Tunisian who braved retribution from the Nazis ...

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