He was nicknamed 'the Iranian Schindler' because during the Nazi occupation of France he saved the lives of numerous Jews using his role of diplomat in Paris. Abdol Hossain Sardari is one of the 'Righteous of Islam' - Muslims who made sacrifices to save the Jews from deportation - who are recalled in an exhibition in Milan as of today. The exhibition, set in the Centre for Missionary Culture and Activities Pime, will last until February 10, before being moved to various schools throughout Lombardy. There are seventy Muslims among the 22,000 'Righteous Among the Nations' listed in Yad Vashem, the memorial of the holocaust in Jerusalem. A series of 25 panels represent the stories of some of them (two Bosnians, three Albanian, two Turkish), "who are the most forgotten today because are considered politically wrong by many Jews and many Arabs," the exhibition's curator Giorgio Bernardelli said. "The holocaust is part of the identity of every European regardless of religion," Abdallah Kabakebbji from the Young Muslims of Italy said. "As a believer, this exhibition fills me with pride for the fact that Muslims had made these gestures." "The concept of 'Righteousness' is universal,"Daniele Nahum, president of the Union of Young Jews of Italy said.
