The beginning of the lamentation is: "Kinat Mekatilana tahat kadmat Al-Aleman [Lament for our dead under the (forced) labor of the Germans].
It is a poem in 19 stanzas written in Arabic with Hebrew letters, and transliterated in Latin letters. It was printed in Tunis in 1946, after the departure of the Germans from Tunisia.
Content of the Complaint: The plaintive regrets the good and peaceful past of the Jews in Tunisia as opposed to the cruel present. The German people, thought to be friendly, proved to be a fierce enemy, abusing the Jews: forcing the best young men into forced labor, bombing many towns in Tunisia and destroying houses. The fate of the Jews was death and mourning, hard work, sickness, hunger, lice and heavy sadness. This tragedy lasted six months and the victims were numerous.
At the end of his lament, the mourning tells that he composed a commemorative book containing a tribute to the dead of the war in Tunisia.
