The Jews of Cyrenaica During World War II, in Their Own Words (Sephardic Horizons)
Oral History · Sephardic Horizons
The Jews of Cyrenaica During World War II, in Their Own Words
Drawing on oral histories and a family memoir, Vivienne Roumani-Denn, former Judaica librarian at UC Berkeley, tells how the Jews of eastern Libya lived through World War II: anti-Jewish laws, the looting of Benghazi, internment in the Giado camp, deportation to Tunisia, and the return to homes that had been stripped bare.