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IRANIAN OSKAR SCHINDLER: An Iranian Muslim diplomat in Paris who risked everything to save thousands of Jews from the Nazis

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You’ve probably never heard the name Abdol Hossein Sardari, who was Iran’s consul in Nazi-occupied Paris. When he realized Iranian Jews in France were being marked for extermination by the Hitler Regime, he didn’t look away. He didn’t wait for permission. He acted.

Abdol Hossein Sardari
@drdanielschatz  He began issuing Iranian passports — passports that deliberately left out the holder’s religion. First for Iranian Jews. Then for ANY Jew he could reach. But here’s where it gets truly amazing: He walked into rooms full of Nazi officials and argued — to their faces — that Iranian Jews weren’t “racially Jewish” but Aryan. He used the Nazis’ own twisted ideology as a weapon against them. And it worked.
When Tehran ordered him home, he refused. When the embassy ran out of money, he used his own. When Jews needed a place to hide, he opened the Iranian consulate itself — sheltering families and guarding their belongings while they fled. He even extended this protection beyond Iranian citizens, giving documents to many non-Iranian Jews to help them escape Nazi persecution. He is estimated to have saved between 2,000 and 3,000 Jewish lives. Schindler saved 1,200.
Years later, the Islamic Republic executed his nephew, former Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda, and helped erase much of the family’s legacy from Iran’s public memory.
Sardari never took any credit for his efforts during the war. When contacted by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem three years before his death, Sardari responded, “As you may know, I had the pleasure of being the Iranian consul in Paris during the German occupation of France, and as such, it was my duty to save all Iranians, including Iranian Jews.”

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  1. He was a brave and honorable man, but under the government of the Islamic Repugnant of Iran he would’ve been executed.

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