Wiesenthal Center honors one of Shoah’s righteous Arabs

By Tom Tugend

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/wiesenthal_center_honors_one_of_shoahs_righteous_arabs_20070413/

On Monday morning, when the Simon Wiesenthal Center observes Yom HaShoah, commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, a place of honor will be reserved for the daughter of the late Khaled Abdelwahab. Abdelwahab is the first Arab to be nominated for official recognition by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations, and his story adds a new dimension to the 6 million stories of horror -- and occasionally nobility -- rising from the ashes of the Holocaust. His acts also shed light on the little-known fates of Jews in the Arab countries of North Africa during World War II.

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