Rapport hebdomadaire sur la situation politique et économique dans la commune mixte de Fort-National, 18 juin 1940
Description
This report mentions several pieces of information:
1. Indigenous peoples are following the current events of the war carefully.
2. Some citizens have lived in the northern regions of France, currently invaded, and they still have family there.
3. The entry into the war of Italy worries the spirits.
4. Béni-Yenni’s caid gave families of mobilized people a radio hearing of Lella Tessadit’s conference on the events of the war.
5. The economic situation is favorable.
6. 43 workers, mostly paramilitaries, were sent to the Algiers Workers’ Base.
7. The situation of the natives provisionally released and left at the disposal of the military authority remains difficult.
Commune mixte in the French colonial period is a neighborhood managed by civil servants French, Arab (indigenous), and Jews.
The document can be consulted at the documentation center, Institut Ben-Zvi. Appointment required.