Testimony of Moshe Megidesh, born in Cirene, Libya, 1925, regarding his experiences near Benghazi and in Giado

Testimony of Moshe Megidesh, born in Cirene, Libya, 1925, regarding his experiences near Benghazi and in Giado Life in Benghazi and Appolonia; move of his family near to Benghazi, 1938. Shelling; deportation by Italian soldiers to Giado, 1942; life in Giado; guarded by Arab policemen; hunger; escape at night to obtain food in the Arab villages in the area; high mortality rate; receives help from the Jewish community in Tripoli; typhus epidemic; religious life; problems with keeping kosher; black market in Giado; liberation by the British Army, 1943. Displays of antisemitism in Libya after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.