יהודי לוב בתקופת מלחה"ע השניה תחת השלטון הפשיסטי-נאצי

Discusses the suffering of Libyan Jews in the 1930s-40s under fascist Italian rule. Legislation passed in the early 1930s, ostensibly for the sake of modernization, caused suffering for the Jews; e.g. Jewish shopkeepers were forced to open their shops on the Sabbath. From 1937 antisemitism was officially encouraged, and in 1938 the first racist laws were passed in Italy. After the outbreak of war these laws were also enforced in Libya, causing the impoverishment of the Jewish communities. In 1942 many Jewish men were interned briefly in labor camps. Jews with foreign citizenship were sent to Tunisia or Italy, and many of those in Italy were deported to Nazi concentration or labor camps. In addition, thousands of Jews were sent to camps in the Libyan desert, where they remained until their liberation in 1943. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)