Testimony of Eliahu Mesika, born in Bizerte, Tunisia, in 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in ‎Bizerte, Mateur, and Tunis

Testimony of Eliahu Mesika, born in Bizerte, Tunisia, in 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in ‎Bizerte, Mateur, and Tunis His life before the war; son of a family of rabbis; the Italian occupation in 1939; his family’s escape ‎to Mateur; escape back to Bizerte after two months; life there until the end of 1942; the German ‎occupation in November 1942; air raids; evacuation by order of the Allies; escape to Tunis; his ‎experiences at the school in the Jewish quarter; his father saved from being sent to forced labor; ‎liberation by the British army in May 1943; his studies at a French school; antisemitism; his life until ‎‎1951; aliya to Israel; absorption.‎