Joseph D. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Joseph D., who was born in Bangha?zi?, Libya in 1921. He recalls his father's death at age five; cordial relations with non-Jewish Italians; Zionist activities; increasing anti-Jewish legislation with the rise of fascism; expulsion from a secular school; attending a Jewish school; compulsory work on Saturdays; the arrival of Austrian Jewish refugees; outbreak of war; anti-Jewish violence by Arabs in April 1941; working as a secretary for the local Zionist organization; receiving protection from his non-Jewish employer; refusing to take false papers and live among non-Jews; deportation with his family to Giado; slave labor and starvation in the overcrowded camp; an Italian teaching them how to protect themselves from the Arabs; his infant daughter's death from typhus; and liberation by British troops. Mr. D. describes returning to Bangha?zi?; conflicts between Arabs and Jews; and emigration to Israel.

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