Jonah Platt: The Incredible Story of Muslims and Jews Visiting Auschwitz Together

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This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Jonah Platt. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on May 27, 2025.

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Jonah Platt is a jack of all trades in the entertainment industry—an actor, director, producer, and singer. In the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Israelis led by terrorist group Hamas, he launched the podcast “Being Jewish.”

He recently visited Auschwitz, the largest German death camp, alongside over a dozen Muslims. He went with the organization Sharaka, which builds on the work of the Abraham Accords and educates Middle Easterners and other Arabs and Muslims around the world about the Holocaust.

“Some of these people came on this trip at great personal risk. If you’re coming from Pakistan to hang out with Jews in the middle of this Israel-Gaza war, I mean, you could be in real, physical danger. Some people—they couldn’t be in any photos and their identities had to be kept secret to protect them,” says Platt. “There were Jewish slaves [at Auschwitz], working out in that kind of rain in threadbare pajamas, starving to death, and having to do physical labor and be shot if they didn’t keep up. And meanwhile, I’m freezing in the cold, but I get to go on a warm bus and get a hot meal after this.”

In this episode, we discuss how to navigate being Jewish and Zionist in a society that is becoming increasingly hostile to Israel.

CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:01 - Introduction: Hollywood, Jewish Identity, and Current Tensions
0:04:37 - The Abraham Accords and People-to-People Connections
0:09:50 - Holocaust Education and Muslim Perspectives
0:12:00 - Journey Through Germany and Poland
0:15:00 - Building Bridges: The Significance of the Sharaka Trip
0:17:02 - Origins of the Being Jewish Podcast
0:19:13 - Hollywood's Jewish Roots and Cultural Influence