Memoirs of Nissim Haddad, born in Sirte, Libya, in 1937, covering the years 1938–1949

Memoirs of Nissim Haddad, born in Sirte, Libya, in 1937, covering the years 1938–1949 The memoirs were written down by Nissim Hadded in a booklet that he titled “Childhood in the Germans’ Shadow”; relations between the Jews of Libya, including those of his hometown, Sirte, with the Italians who ruled Libya until July 14, 1938; from that day on, the attitude toward the Jews worsened; they were suspected of harboring British and Zionist sympathies; arrest of the rabbi of Sirte (Rabbi ...