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Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands (2006)

de Robert Satloff

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Was there an Arab ""Schindler?"" The neverbefore- told story of the Holocaust in the Arab lands of North Africa, and one man's quest to find the truth
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A very interesting look at the Holocaust outside of Europe, an area we don't normally think about. Doubly interesting given the way politics evolved after the Holocaust. ( )
  mpark6288 | Nov 19, 2020 |
Growing up as I did, attending a Jewish school that wanted us to know all about the holocaust, praying a synagogue with Holocaust survivors, hearing family stories about my grandfather being the first into a concentration camp (because he spoke Yiddish; he's never talked about it), I knew lots about the horrors of the Holocaust, to a degree where hearing the litany repeated again was almost deadening. Getting a fresh perspective on this can bring back the emotions associated with it, but with the number of different angles taken so far, it's hard to do well.

It came as a surprise to me, as well as to the author of the book, that no one had ever taken a look at the Holocaust through the lens of what happened in North Africa, where both the Germans and the Vichy French had footholds. The real point of the book, however, is to try to identify an Arab who helped a Jew during the Holocaust; Satloff writes a couple of times that such a story would serve as a constructive response to some of the anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial/minimization that takes place in the Arab world. Specifically, the book is Satloff's response to 9/11; if one can find these connections between disparate peoples and point them up, perhaps it'll be harder for such tragedies to happen in the future.

The book itself is a mix of wider-scope history, personal stories, and travelogue. Satloff's style tends to shift a bit between the different parts, but that's probably a plus; he steps out of the way of the wider-scope Holocaust history material and lets the terrible nature of it speak for itself, he can be evocative with the personal stories, and he gives a sense of his enthusiasm during his search during the travelogue portions. Vichy France and Germany both had persecution campaigns and labor or torture camps for Jews during World War II, and Satloff argues it was only a matter of time before the Germans got around to the genocide in North Africa; it was only that they lost that prevented them from doing so.

The history part is essential to understanding the book, but mostly, it shines during the stories of the survivors and Arab rescuers, and with the associated travelogue of finding the stories and telling the tale. Really, as much as the stories are interesting, they aren't that different from others of the type; the players are different, and it doesn't diminish the power of it, but if you've read Holocaust books before, you've heard their like.

No, it's the travelogue part, Satloff's hunt through North Africa and around the world for these sites and stories and documents to lay out his argument, and the difficulties he met both with Arabs and Jews who just want to put this part of their past behind them, if for different reasons. The former want no complications in what is viewed as a tragic but European affair, and the latter, particularly those still in the North African countries, want to not stick out as much as is possible. While a postscript tells of some changes in both positions subsequent to the publishing of the book, the story along those lines remains very interesting and well-written.

Holocaust books are heavy reading, but this one has at least an optimistic goal, and is very interesting for all that. It's not for everyone, but you could definitely do worse for non-fiction than this readable and enterprising tome. ( )
1 vote WinterFox | Jun 16, 2009 |
Reviewed in The Middle East Journal, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp.175-77, Winter 2008.
  MiddleEastInstitute | Mar 3, 2008 |
This is a fascinating subject. I thought it could have been organized a bit differently, but the important research that Robert Satloff has done far outweighs the importance of any minor disagreements on structure. An essential work. ( )
  urhockey22 | Jan 14, 2007 |
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We were educated from childhood that the Holocaust is a big lie. - Muhammad Al-Zurqani, editor-in-chief of the Egyptian government newsletter Al-Liwaa Al-Islami, which published a July 2004 article, "The Lie About the Burning of the Jews," alleging that the extermination of Jews during World War II was a lie invented by Zionists
We all condemn the policies of Hitler and the Holocaust, but enough is enough. There is a moment of saturation and, let me be very blunt on this, world Jewry is in danger because of the very irresponsible policies of the government of Israel, supported by some unaware leaders of the Jewish community in the United States. I hate to see a day where there is an unleashing of dormant anti-Semitism, in Europe, particularly, and maybe in the United States. But we Arabs are not a part of it. We are not part of the Holocaust. We never persecuted Jews. - Kamal Abul Magd, prominent Muslim theologian and political moderate, speaking at the American University in Cairo, September 2003
There are many admirable, high-minded intellectuals in the Arab world fighting and risking their lives for issues like human rights, liberty, democracy, justice, and so on, but it is amazing that no one thought of why and how these issues are pertinent to the Holocaust, nor of why and how reflection on the Holocaust is essential to them. - Anwar Chemseddine, pseudonym of a professor of English literature at a university in North Africa, from his Internet essay "The Arabs' View of the Holocaust is Indeed Troubled"
This memorial stands in memory of history's most revolting events. I am disgusted and outraged by what I saw today. The evil and hatred used by mankind in that period is truly disgusting. These events must make us stand together to promote peace and teach tolerance to ensure that such brutality is never repeated. What we saw today must help us change evil into good and hate to love and war into peace. - A young prince from an Arab gulf state, after visiting the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 2004
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