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Labor Camp, Sidi Azaz (سيدي عزاز), Libya
The Sidi Azaz Labor Camp, near Sidi Azaz ( סידי עזאז ,سيدي عزاز), Libya (לוב, الليبيا).
Description
Active during the Second World War, this camp housed Jewish residents of Tripoli, Homs, and other Libyan cities. Administered by Italian and German forces, the inmates at the camp built the nearby road and train station.
This was not the only camp in Libya nor North Africa. In Libya there were also the camps Jado and Buq Buq, and there were camps in the other North African countries as well.
Sidi Azaz, Libya
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Sources
Interview with S. Hamsia.
See also, Among the Righteous by Robert Satloff and The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust edited by Shmuel Spector and Geoffrey Wigoder.