The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Short Film of How Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust
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Uploaded by TrueLeaks on Oct 3, 2011
When no other European country dared to withstand the wrath of Nazi Germany, it was the Muslims of Albania who saved a large number of Jewish people from extermination.
Albania, a Muslim majority country in Europe, opened its borders during World War II and took in thousands of Jews fleeing from different countries. They were treated like honored guests, and many were given fake names and even passports.
This little-known chapter of history is the focus of the photographic exhibition Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust , which kicked off in July at the Holocaust Museum Houston and continues through February.
Unknown history:
These stories have remained unknown for decades, even to students of the Holocaust. Rob Satloff, director of the Washington Institute of Near East Policy in Washington, D.C., offers an explanation.
"First, we — Jews, Israelis, Western historians — didn't look very hard," Satloff said. "And second, they — Arabs and Muslims, even those who rescued Jews — often did not want to be found. The result is a tacit conspiracy of silence about this lost chapter from the Holocaust."
Satloff wrote the book Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands.
Ellen Kennedy, interim director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota, believes these stories remained untold because many surviving Jews and Albanians were reluctant to share them.
"When survivors first began speaking about their experiences in the years immediately after the war, they were met with disbelief," Kennedy said. "The public simply could not imagine that such horrors occurred."
Gershman's work is an attempt at building bridges between Muslims and people of Jewish faith.
"Islam and Judaism are Abrahamic faiths, and we have lot of things in common," said Dr. Aziz Siddiqui, president of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston. "We must strive to highlight these as Gershman has done and avoid everything that tends to divide us."
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Fuck Jews
Angles786 1 day ago
yeah... thats why there is 100,000 tunisian jews dead...
becouse they saved us
PROUD TO BE JEW!! PROUD TO BE ISRAELI ZIONIST JEW!! FUCK ALL YOU MOTHER FUKING HATERS
WE ARE THE MOST HUMANIC COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ASK THE ARABS
BenAbu111 3 months ago
Other recent films claim Nazi's trained Muslims in WW2.
Seems much of WW2 was bankster manipulation which even Hilter could not overcome with his gold backed money.
euro944t 4 months ago