Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands Robert Satloff Did any Arabs save any Jews during the Holocaust? Was there an "Arab Schindler?" An "Arab Wallenberg?" Seeking a hopeful response to the plague of Holocaust denial sweeping across the Arab and Muslim worlds, Robert Satloff set off on a four-year quest to find an Arab Hero whose story might change the way Arabs view Jews, themselves, and their own history. Along the way, he learned that from the fall of France in 1940 to the liberation of Tunisia in 1943, Nazi Germans and its collaborators in Vichy France and Fascist Italy applied many of the same methods against Jews in Arab lands as they did in Europe. Many Arabs were willing partners in this persecution. And some Arabs, he found, even risked their lives to save Jews. To unearth these lost stories of Arab heroes and villains from World War II, Satloff traveled throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe and set up a network of researchers, interviewers, and archivists spanning ten countries. He trekked through the desert along the Morocco-Algeria border to sites of long-lost Vichy slave labor camps, knocked on doors in small Tunisian towns, and tracked down octogenarians who might be able to corroborate remarkable stories of wartime valor. His discoveries have already had a powerful impact - they helped convince the German Government to offer financial compensation to thousands of Jews who suffered in the more than one hundred labor camps set by Germany and its allies throughout the Arab lands of North Africa. Soon, perhaps, the names revealed in this book might join the list of honored "Righteous among the Nations" at the hallowed ground of Yad Vashem. Satloff peels away the many layers of Arab and Jewish memory, politics, and denial to explain why these stories have remained hidden for more than sixty years. His controversial answer is likely to fuel an unprecedented debate among both Arabs and Jews. Robert Satloff, an expert on Arab and Islamic politics, is executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Soon after 9/11 he and his family moved to Rabat, Morocco, where he launched a search for Arab heroes of the Holocaust. He now lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife and two sons.