Beitar youth movement, North Africa, 1940s
Submitted by dan on Tue, 05/09/2017 - 11:45Beitar Jewish youth in North Africa 1940
Beitar Jewish youth in North Africa 1940
Dan Efrat looks at a radio he has made and listens to BBC broadcasts in violation of German occupation laws. Tunis, 1942
Yad Vashem archives 4416/1
In 1947, the British Army Information Division organized a tour for journalists from Palestine in Egypt and Libya. The tour was joined by journalist Amos Gordon during which he took rare photographs. Courtesy of the Museum of the History of Libyan Jewry, Or Yehuda
From a collection of photographs taken by journalist Amos Gordon in the Jewish community of troglodytes Jews in Gharian, Libya. The Jews of Gharian lived for hundreds of years in underground caves in three communities about 100 kilometers south of the city of Tripoli.In the caves the Jews tried to defend themselves from their hostile neighbors and during the Second World War The Jews of Gharyan sheltered for Jews who fled from other cities and villages in Libya. Courtesy of the Museum of the History of Libyan Jewry, Or Yehuda
Gharian Jews lived for hundreds of years in underground caverns in three communities about 100 kilometers south of the city of Tripoli. In the caves, these Jews tried to defend themselves against their hostile neighbors. During the Second World War, Jews from Gharyan sheltered Jews who had fled from other towns and villages in Libya. Courtesy of the Museum of the History of the Libyan Jewish Community, Ohr Yehuda
From a collection of photographs taken by journalist Amos Gordon in the Jewish community of troglodytes Jews in Gharian, Libya. The Jews of Gharian lived for hundreds of years in underground caves in three communities about 100 kilometers south of the city of Tripoli.In the caves the Jews tried to defend themselves from their hostile neighbors and during the Second World War The Jews of Gharyan sheltered for Jews who fled from other cities and villages in Libya. Courtesy of the Museum of the History of Libyan Jewry, Or Yehuda