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Allegra Gutta, born in Benghazi, Libya, recounts her experiences and those of her family in Libya before the war and during the war in the Giado concentration camp, their escape from Libya to Italy and their immigration to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine).
The differences in the fates of European and North African Jewry, an unhealthy tendency to compare and quantify suffering, and more.
Child Survivor from Libya
"Our fate was linked to the Jews of Italy. It was just a question of time and it was our luck that the war in Libya ended before the war in Europe."
Spotlight
Antisemitic legislation was imposed on the 415,000 Jews of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia following the establishment of the Vichy regime in France. In Libya, thousands of Jews were imprisoned in concentration camps.
French Olympic Swimmer and Holocaust Survivor
Jewish Families and Communities during the Holocaust
World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932
Victor Perez was arrested in Paris in September 1943, and was deported to Auschwitz on convoy 60 in October 1943. He was murdered on 22 January 1945 while on a death march.
Reading Corner
From the Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Spread over seven chapters, written in the style of Megillat Esther, Prosper Hassine, a scribe and teacher in Casablanca, related the events of the Holocaust from the rise of Hitler to power, through the occupation of Europe and culminating with the murder of the Jews and the plunder of their property. The final three chapters, written after the liberation of Morocco, are dedicated to the history of North African Jewry and the liberation by the Allies.
This badge belonged to Israel Emil Ichay from the city of Sousse, Tunisia
Hadad took the prayer book with him when he was sent from his home in Tripoli, Libya, to a work camp next to the Egyptian border
When the Jews were ordered to hand over 50 kilograms of gold as ransom, Sha'aduna gave the pestle and mortar and other items to the head of the Jewish community
