Holocaust Survivor Hosts Film About Muslim-Jewish Ties

[Tom Joad]

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=03-14-06&storyID=23635

Strangers saved the lives of Annette Herskovits and her sister in occupied France almost a half-century ago.

And so when Herskovits learned that Muslims in France had kept some 1,700 strangers—many of them Jews—from the Nazi death camps, she began que stioning today’s animosity between Muslims and Jews and discovered that there is a history of the two peoples—cousins, some say—living harmoniously.

Herskovits found a documentary that tells some of that story. She will show Derri Berkani’s 1991 film, T heir Children Are Like Our Own Children, A Forgotten Resistance: The Mosque of Paris tonight (Tuesday), 7:30 p.m., International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.

At the screening, Herskovits will share her personal Holocaust story.
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http://www.thestreetspirit.org/Feb2005/mosque.htm
The Mosque That Sheltered Jews
"Their children are like our own children"
"Yesterday at dawn, the Jews of Paris were arrested. The old, the women, and the children. In exile like ourselves, workers like ourselves. They are our brothers. Their children are like our own children. The one who encounters one of his children must give that child shelter and protection for as long as misfortune - or sorrow - lasts. Oh, man of my country, your heart is generous."

- A tract read to immigrant Algerian workers in Paris, asking them to help shelter Jewish children.

by Annette Herskovits

There is in the center of Paris a handsome mosque with a tall slender minaret and lovely gardens. It was built in the 1920s, as an expression of gratitude from France for the over half-million Muslims from its African possessions who fought alongside the French in the 1914-1918 war. About 100,000 of them died in the trenches.
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I am more than honored to know Annette and to work with her for a just peace in Israel/Palestine

[Tom Joad]

1. Annette is very active in "Jewish Voice for Peace"

http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

It is really consistant with her life experience, to work towards justice, oppose oppression, to speak out for those who oppressed.