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Voices on Antisemitism: Robert Satloff, Ph.D. (Executive Director, Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy)

From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: Voices on Antisemitism
Length: 05:33

Soon after September 11, 2001, Robert Satloff moved to Rabat, Morocco, to search for Arab heroes during the Holocaust. Listen to him explain why. Read the full description.
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Robert Satloff, Ph.D., Executive Director, Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy Soon after September 11, 2001, Robert Satloff moved to Rabat, Morocco, to search for Arab heroes during the Holocaust. Listen to him explain why. Voices on Antisemitism is a podcast series of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Join us every other week to hear a new perspective on the continuing threat of antisemitism and hatred in our world today. To learn more about antisemitism, and to contribute your thoughts to our series, please visit our Web site at http://www.ushmm.org/. At that site, you can also listen to Voices on Genocide Prevention, the Holocaust Memorial Museum's podcast series on contemporary genocide. [anti-Semitism]

Transcript

ROBERT SATLOFF:
There were Arabs who collaborated with Nazis and with other European fascists and there were Arabs who refused to collaborate. And in this respect, Arabs were not that dissimilar than Europeans. Many were indifferent to the fate of Jews around them. Some collaborated and a smaller, though very important number, refused to collaborate and helped save Jews.

DANIEL GREENE:
Troubled by widespread Holocaust denial in the Arab world, author Robert Satloff began to search for evidence of one Arab who saved one Jew during the Holocaust. What Satloff found is a largely untold history of complex relationships between Arabs and Jews in North Africa during the Second World War. He recounts these experiences in his book, Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach Into Arab Lands.

Welcome to Voices on Antisemitism, a podcast series of the United States Holocaus...
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