Did any Arabs save Jews during the Holocaust? 
Wednesday 14 April 2010
Among the Righteous: Lost Stories From the Holocaust in Arab Lands
Monday, April 12 10:00 PM (ET) on PBS
Special, Documentary, Rob Satloff searches for Arab heroes and what happened to the half-million Jews of the Arab lands of North Africa under Nazi rule.
AMONG THE RIGHTEOUS:
LOST STORIES FROM THE HOLOCAUST IN ARAB LANDS
A new documentary film based on the book by Robert Satloff
Directed by Emmy-award winner William Cran
Narrated by Robert MacNeil, former anchor and executive editor,
MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
Sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Seeking a hopeful response to the problems of Holocaust ignorance and denial in the Arab world, and in the wake of 9/11, Middle East expert Robert Satloff set out on what would become an eight-year journey to find an Arab hero whose story would change the way Arabs view Jews, themselves, and their own history. Along the way, Rob Satloff found not only the Arab heroes for whom he started his quest but a vast, lost history of what actually happened to the half-million Jews of the Arab lands of North Africa under Nazi, Vichy, and Fascist rule.
Produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and filmed on location in Tunisia, Morocco, France, Israel, and the United States, the surprising discoveries chronicled in this film are already challenging how both Arabs and Jews view a long-forgotten chapter of the darkest moment in modern times.
World Television Premiere
Monday, April 12, 2010
10:00 p.m. (ET) on PBS
Check your local PBS station schedules to confirm date and time of broadcast
Part of the PBS Holocaust Remembrance Collection
Robert Satloff is executive director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and host of Dakhil Washington (Inside Washington), a weekly public affairs program on al-Hurra Arabic satellite television network. Since the publication of Among the Righteous, Dr. Satloff and his work have been awarded the Anti-Defamation League's prestigious Daniel Pearl Award for tolerance promotion as well as national prizes from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Touro Synagogue.
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