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Testimony of Diamantina Makhlouf, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1926, regarding her life in Tripoli during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Diamantina Makhlouf, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1926, regarding her life in Tripoli during the war Family background; life before the war; studies at a Jewish Italian school. The outbreak of war; school closure; the bombings; moving residence to the synagogue; murder of Jews by German soldiers; living in the city until the end of the war. Life after the war; aliya to Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Joint testimony of brothers Haim Doan Dauan, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1934, and Reuven Doan Doron, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1929, regarding their experiences in Benghazi and Giado

Testimony

Joint testimony of brothers Haim Doan Dauan, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1934, and Reuven Doan Doron, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1929, regarding their experiences in Benghazi and Giado Life before the war; witnesses attend the "Talmud Torah" Jewish school and an Italian school. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; deportation to Giado, 1942; camp life; liberation by the British Army, 1943. Displays of antisemitism and riots by Moslems; life in Tripoli; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption in the framework of Youth Aliyah.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Gulia (Dadosh) Butbika, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Benghazi and Giado

Testimony

Testimony of Gulia (Dadosh) Butbika, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child in Benghazi and Giado Life before the war; religious family. Air-raids on Benghazi, 1941; escape to outside the city with her family; return to the family's home; finds their home broken into and empty; deportation to Giado; camp life including shortage of food; trade with Moslems via the camp's fences; typhus disease; transfer of men to forced labor; liberation by the British Army. Return to the family's home; riots against Jews, 1948; move to Tripoli; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony

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;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Chason) Frid, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1936, regarding her experiences in Benghazi and Giado

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Chason) Frid, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1936, regarding her experiences in Benghazi and Giado Jewish religious family of distinguished lineage on her grandfather's side. Displays of antisemitism and anti-Jewish decrees, from 1940; detention of her father and brother, and their accusation of spying, 1941; deportation to Giado, 1942; labor removing rocks; activities of the Jewish community; death of family relatives in camp; liberation, 1943. Return to Benghazi; reunion with her father, 1946; aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Misa Ines (Ezra) Navon, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Tripoli and Sfax

Testimony

Testimony of Misa Ines (Ezra) Navon, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Tripoli and Sfax Life in Tripoli before the war. Approach of the war front; escape with her family; escape back to Tripoli; life in Tripoli including deportation to the city square by Italian soldiers; deportation to Sfax by train by Italian soldiers; camp life with her family including her brother's death; lack of activity; liberation by the British Army, 1943. Life in Sfax under the supervision of French policemen; return to Tripoli; life in Tripoli including displays of antisemitism on the part...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Viktor Robin, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1925, regarding his experiences in Benghazi, Alexandria, the British Army in Cairo and Tobrouk

Testimony

Testimony of Viktor Rubin, born in Benghazi, Libya, 1925, regarding his experiences in Benghazi, Alexandria, the British Army in Cairo and Tobrouk Life before the war; learns in a Talmud Torah and an Italian public school. Escape of his family to Arab villages with the outbreak of the war, 1939; return to Benghazi; escape to Alexandria; enlists in the Boys Compagnie unit of the British Army; transfer to the Royal Corps of Signals in Cairo; life in Tobrouk; transfer to Benghazi. Moslem riots against Jewish communities following the declaration of the State of Israel; release from the British Army; aliya...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mario Nisim Halfon, born in Benghazi, Libya, about his family's experiences in Benghazi under German occupation, in the Giado camp, in Egypt after escaping from the camp, and in Lebanon after attempting unsuccessfully to reach Eretz Israel Pre-war experiences of the Benghazi Jewish community; situation of Libyan Jewry deteriorates after Mussolini and Hitler establish alliance; bombardments when war erupts in northern Africa in 1941; Germans enter Benghazi; French citizens murdered; Jews banished to the Giado camp; witness's family reaches Giado on its own; living conditions in the camp...

File Number : 12704

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regina (Habib) Tzemach, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1928, regarding her life during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Regina (Habib) Tzemach, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1928, regarding her life during the war Family background; visit of Mussolini to Libya in 1937; getting out of school to cheer for Mussolini; anti-Jewish legislation; ban on closing shops on Shabbat; ban on owning a radio; confiscation of radios; air-raids of Tripoli; arrest of her father for refusing to open the shop on Shabbat; release of her father the next day; leaving home with her whole family; living in the Bedouin village of Amrus; return to Tripoli; move to the village of Zavia; life with a Jewish family for a year in exchange for payment;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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