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Thread: My Jewish-Amazigh family worked in forced labour camps in Tunisia. Did you know that the Nazis oppressed the Jews of North Africa as well as European Jews?

Approximately 5,000 Tunisian Jewish men were conscripted for almost 40 detention camps and forced labor areas >>>

These camps were run by both the Germans and the Italians; the most important one was the military port at Bizerte, under German control. Conditions in the camps were awful, particularly those run by the Germans. The Jewish notables set up committees to improve the lives of>>>

the internees by classifying workers as sick and helping them escape. This became progressively easier because discipline in the camps broke down as the Axis hold on Tunisia weakened.
Despite being worn down by the Allied land and air strikes in spring 1943, German authorities>>>

continued to persecute the Tunisian Jews. For example, the Germans imposed fines on Tunisian Jewish communities, ostensibly to compensate civilian victims of Allied bombings. In March 1943, rightwing antisemitic French colonists robbed Jewish homes and stores>>>

and denounced twenty members of the anti-Vichy resistance, some of them Jews, to the German authorities. The Germans transferred those arrested to concentration camps in Europe.
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