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Memoirs of Sitbon and Ben-Adi family members in Tunisia, 1942-1943

Memoirs of Sitbon and Ben-Adi family members in Tunisia, 1942-1943 Yosef Sitbon Bar-Shimon was born in Tunis, 1936; his father Shimon was born in Tunis, 1889; his mother Marcelle (Ben-Adi) Sitbon was born in 1904; confiscation of Jewish property; escape from their home; life in hiding in a shop near the port of Tunis; the Germans flee; return of the family to their home.

File Number : 8605

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul

Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul Life in Nabuel under the Vichy regime; expulsion of Jews from the schools; imposition of restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; breaking into the apartments of Jews and robbing the apartments; murder of Jews who attempted to defend their property; activities of Mordechai Karilla, the head of the Nabuel Jewish community; general meeting of members of the local Jewish community; Mordechai Karilla's request not to take any initiatives; arranging for a trained defense unit made up of community...

File Number : 8585

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letter of testimony by Albert Beribi, regarding the killing of German soldiers in Sfax, hiding of their weapons by his uncle, the draft of another uncle into the French Army, and other matters

Letter of testimony by Albert Beribi, regarding the killing of German soldiers in Sfax, hiding of their weapons by his uncle, the draft of another uncle into the French Army, and other matters Letter of testimony by Albert Beribi, regarding the killing of three German soldiers in Sfax, hiding of their weapons by his uncle, Eli Ankri, 1943; draft of another uncle, Aizek Beribi, into the French Army; Aizek died in battle in Germany, 18 November 1944.

File Number : 8290

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marie Miriam (Malih) Slakmon, born in Moknine, Tunisia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Moknine

Testimony

Testimony of Marie Miriam (Malih) Slakmon, born in Moknine, Tunisia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Moknine Jewish community life in Moknine; relations with the Arab population. Air-raids by the Germans, 1942; forced labor; abuse on the Jews by the Germans; British invasion, 1943; retreat of the Germans. Aliya to Israel, 1950.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Amar Sofer, born in Gabes, Tunisia in 1904, given in the form of a lament regarding his experiences in Tunisia during the German occupation

Gathering Jews from synagogues and concentrating them in a barracks; robbery of Jewish property; sending the owner of the mine to his death; stay in Marsa; informers; the attitude of the local population; Included in the file: Translation of the testimonies from the Tunisian dialect into Hebrew, translated by the daughter of the witness Amar Sofer, with an introduction by his granddaughter.

File Number : 12374

Type of Material : Testimony, Elegy

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Article investigating the fate of Edouard Dana, born in Tunis in 1917, who was deported from Tunis to Auschwitz camp as an underground activist, and was murdered in 1943

Article investigating the fate of Edouard Dana, born in Tunis in 1917, who was deported from Tunis to Auschwitz camp as an underground activist, and was murdered in 1943 His parents - Felix and Louise (Bismuth) Dana; Edouard Dana's childhood in the shadow of the family's poverty; bankruptcy of the family business and his father’s suicide; volunteering for the French army in 1939 and his discharge from military service in June 1940; marriage to Lucie Pia Sassia Amanou in March 1942; their deportation from Tunis and the murder of the father and two sons of the Scemla family, following their attempt to join the...

File Number : 648

Type of Material : Research Article

Language : Hebrew, French

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