FSWC Reports:
From Tazpit News Agency via ynetnews.com:
Two unusual events
relating to Holocaust remembrance took place in the Arab world in
December 2013: A first official conference on the Holocaust was held in
Tunisia, dealing with Holocaust of the Jews of Tunisia, and the first
visit by an Arab diplomat to a Holocaust memorial site, when Bahraini
ambassador to France Nasser Al-Balushi visited a memorial in Drancy,
near Paris.
The Middle East Media
Research Institute (MEMRI) reports that on December 14, 2013, Tunisia
held the Arab world's first official Holocaust conference. The two-day
conference, attended by historians, clerics, authors, and journalists,
dealt with the Tunisian Jewish Holocaust, and its purpose was to
commemorate the 5,000 Tunisian Jews who were sent to labor camps or
European death camps during the Nazi rule of the country.
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