Testimony of Nisim Bekhor Mahlouf, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1920, regarding his experiences in Gharian, as a forced laborer in Sidi Azaz, in Darna, Benghazi and Tripoli

Testimony of Nisim Bekhor Mahlouf, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1920, regarding his experiences in Gharian, as a forced laborer in Sidi Azaz, in Darna, Benghazi and Tripoli Home life; Ben Yehuda youth movement activity; imposition of restrictive orders on the Jews; a teacher from Israel sent by the Zionist movement. Air-raids, 1940; escape of the family to Gharian; Italy enters the war; draft of his father to forced labor; Sidi Azaz camp; labor in digging trenches; hunger; synagogue in the camp; hospitalization in Darna; transfer to Benghazi; evacuation of the Jews from the camp in Benghazi to a sealed camp in Tripoli; Italian and German soldiers flee; liberation, 1942. Events of 1945; meeting Eretz Israel soldiers in the British Army, events of 1948; aliya to Israel, 1949.