The Arabs and the Holocaust

Much research has been done on the sufferings of North African Jewry under Vichy and Nazi rule. Just recently we have learned of an einzantzgruppe unit that was meant to wipe out the 500,000 strong Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine, after Rommel's expected victory.

What, however, of the response of the Arabs of North Africa, both the general populace and the religious and lay leadership to the persecution of the Jews? Robert Satloff is coming out with a book this October that promises to try and answer that question. It will be very interesting to see what he has to say.