Italian Internment camp in North Africa

Andy H · Post by **Andy H** » 11 Dec 2006 21:09

Robert Satloff, director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, is the author of 'Among the Righteous: Lost Stories From the Holocaust's Long Reach Into Arab Lands'. In a abstract of this book that appeared in this weeks Newsweek magazine, he mentions an Itlain Internment Camp, where some 2,500 (either) died or where detained and many subsequently died.

Does anyone have any further details concerning this camp?

Regards

Andy H

UMachine · Post by **UMachine** » 13 Dec 2006 04:39

Just ordered the book from Amazon,Andy.Looks interesting.

UMachine · Post by **UMachine** » 23 Dec 2006 03:57

Among The Righteous pg 43.

"The second recapture of Cyrenaica triggered a violent outburst of anti-Jewish sentiment that culminated in an order by Mussolini to round up all the region's Jews and imprison them in internment camps.More than 2,500 Jews of all ages were,in the local terminology,,"cleared out"and dispatched to camps,such as Giado and Gharyan,south of Tripoli."

562 died,mostly from typhus at Giado.Another decree ordered forced labor for all Jewish males under 45 years of age.3000 were sent to Sidi Azaz.

"In negotiations in 2002,Germany accepted responsibility for Jews interned at six camps in Libya:Sidi Azaz,Bug Bug,Giado,Gharyan,Jefren,and Tigrinna.Pg 197.