The Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust are finally being commemorated | The Independent

The Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust are finally being commemorated | The Independent

Dubbed the ?Iranian Schindler?, Islamic diplomat, Abdol Hossein Sardari, saved thousands of Jews from the Nazi regime by confusing the fascist group with their own propaganda. When the Nazis began implementing anti-Jewish laws in occupied France, Mr Sardari, head of the Iranian Consulate in Paris, used the Nazis? own racial purity laws to convince the group Iranian Jews were actually Aryan and not subject to the Reich?s racial laws. Issuing Iranian passports to occupied Jews, without the consent…