'AMONG THE RIGHTEOUS'

Last night they had a small preview and short discussion of an upcoming documentary to air on PBS.

AIR DATE: April 5, 2010
Documentary Examines 'Righteous' Arab Actions During Holocaust



SUMMARY
Robert Satloff, director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, talks to Jeffrey Brown about "Among the Righteous," his eight-year project to document the stories of Arabs helping Jews during the Holocaust and the forthcoming PBS documentary based on his work. Transcript

This is the site for above documentary.

Lost Stories From the Holocaust in Arab Lands

Tune In April 12, 2010

Did any Arabs save Jews during the Holocaust? That's the question author Robert Satloff had in mind when he set out to discover the lost, true stories of survival, courage and betrayal in Arab lands during World War II. The history of the Holocaust in Europe is well-documented, but the history of what happened to the Jewish people of North Africa has been mostly forgotten, even in the very towns and cities where it occurred. -->-->-->

When most people think about the concentration camps of World War II, Auschwitz and other sites in Europe come to mind. But there were also camps in northern Africa -- as mentioned by Ingrid Bergman's character Ilsa Lund in the film Casablanca -- shown on this map.

Timeline

Compare events of World War II in North Africa with what was going on in Europe and the United States at the same time.

Read more about the true stories in Among the Righteous. Plus, watch video clips and extended interviews about some of the people profiled. -->-->-->