The Jews of the East in the face of Nazism and the Shoah (1930-1945)
Sunday 19 March 2017 at 2:30 PM
Around the publication of Revue d'histoire de la Shoah no. 205, October 2016
Benghazi during the Second World War.
© Imperial War Museum, London
The dispersed Jewish communities of the Arab East are frontally hit by the war, from Vichy in the French Maghreb to occupied Tunisia, to the German threat on Egypt and Palestine, to finally the pogrom of Baghdad on 1 June 1941. These persecutions, these disillusions and this climate of fear explain why in 1945 the Jews of the East considered their future less assured than ever.
In partnership with:
In the presence of Ariel Danan, deputy director of the library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Emmanuel Debono, historian, ENS de Lyon, Haïm Saadoun, director of the center for documentation and research on the Jews of North Africa during the Second World War, Ben Zvi Institute.
Animated by Georges Bensoussan, historian, editorial manager, Shoah Memorial
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