250,000

 

(Jews in Vichy Morocco in 1941.)

When France fell to Nazi Germany in 1940, Morocco, then under French Protectorate, came under the control of the Collaborationist Vichy Regime.

250,000 Jews lived in Morocco at the time and even more fled from German-Occupied Europe later.

 Anti‑Jewish laws were imposed across French Territories, stripping Jews of rights, jobs, and protections.

Nazi Officials pushed for Jewish populations in North Africa to be registered, segregated, and eventually deported.

Sultan Mohammed V, though limited by Colonial rule, used every ounce of his authority to shield his Jewish Subjects.

When pressured to hand them over for relocation to Nazi Camps, he refused outright, famously declaring, “There are no Jews in Morocco - only Moroccan Subjects.”

 He insisted that Moroccan Jews would not be separated, marked, or treated differently, and he quietly resisted Vichy attempts to enforce harsher measures.

2,100 Moroccan Jews were sent to Vichy Work Camps though.

Because of his resistance, and because the Nazis never fully controlled Morocco, not a single Moroccan Jew was deported or killed during the Holocaust (unlike in French Algeria 1.500 Algerian Jews were killed during the War.)