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"Iranian Schindler" Saved Countless Paris Jews in WWII
(Times of Israel) Rich Tenorio - Abdol Hossein Sardari, a non-Jewish Iranian consul in Paris, is estimated to have saved thousands of Jews from Hitler by issuing Iranian passports claiming that the bearer was not Jewish but "Djougouten," an Iranian minority that was ethnically Aryan. This act of heroism is the subject of a new documentary, "Sardari's Enigma," produced and directed by Iranian filmmaker Mahdieh Zare Zardiny. According to Fariborz Mokhtari, author of In the Lion's Shadow: The Iranian Schindler and His Homeland in the Second World War, Sardari gave out 500-1,000 Iranian passports and saved 2,000-3,000 Jewish lives, as passports were issued for entire families.