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The Holocaust

The Outbreak of World War II and Anti-Jewish Policy

North Africa and the Middle East

Artifacts
  • Raphael Uzan (b. 1922), The German Entry into Nabeul, Tunisia, December 1942, acrylic and inks on paper. Part of a series depicting the Germans’ entry into North Africa, and the artist’s internment in the Menzel Temime labor camp. According to his testimony, the occupation of his area lasted 6 months, during which time he was in a labor camp for one week.
  • Parchment piece from a Torah scroll that Albert Memmi’s father, Fradji, received from a German officer. Fradji owned a workshop for making leather straps used in horse harnesses. The German officer asked him to make a purse for his wife from the parchment. Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection. Gift of Albert Memmi, Paris, France