Video testimony by Gladis and Alfanso Tzeva
Alfanso
Alina was born in Tripoli, 1936At home they spoke Arabic and Italian, very traditional family. Lived in the Jewish neighborhood.She refers to the Jewish life in Tripoli. Holy days, such as Rosh Hashana and Yum Kipur. The traditional clothing and culture. The war and the fear of war.Aliyah to Israel and building a family yad vasem VT1183
Her father worked as a conditor and her mother as a tailor.
Jewish life in Benghazi. Holydays pass over etc.
Economic lifer
Relations with arabs
The war- air raids.
Anti-Jewish laws
While she was sick an Italian officer witch lived at their house helped her get better.
The Germans – Giado and life at the camp.
The end of the war.
Moving to Israel
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Went to Italian and Jewish schools. His father was A trader
Talk about the life in Zarika.
During the war many refugees came to the city. After the battle of Al-Aleman the feared The Germans might harm the m so they flee to the desert and was hiding at an Arab family.
Talks about the events of 1945 and 1948 during witch he worked as a police man.
Immigrated to Israel
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Born in Meknes. Her father was an accountant and important ,member in the community.
Studied in alians and spoke French.
Talk about the economic life of the Jews.
Good relation with the Arabs
The war: fear of booming, life under Vichy.
After the war became Zionists activist help in organize Aliyah.
Moving to Israel.
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Talks about his father business.
Lived in a Jewish neighborhood.
Good relation with Arabs, when his father was sick received a bless from an old Arab and got better.
Jewish life- Sabbath, Passover Etc.
His father worked for the German an Italian army
When the war ended moved to Tripoli.
Preparation for Aliyah and moving to Israel.
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Eli-yahu talks about his family: father was a Rebai mother was house wife. Bothe studied in French high school.
Mentioned the interring of Italian army in 1939, the Vichy Regime, the Germans and the liberation/
During the war they were forced to leave their home/ and live at a school at a neighbor town.
After the war his father went back to Bizerte and saw that the city was destroyed so they moved to another town from which they made Aliya to Israel
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Talks about his family. his father Job, social and economic life, relation with the Arabs and the Jewish life.
Life during the war: his father was arrested, fear of the booming, Allied victory
After the awr worked with his father as a construction worker, joined beater got married and moved to Israel in 1956
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Very small Jewish community. The first of her family that had survived the birth.
Her father was a Taylor traveling around. They lived in an agricultural area. Her father should have get some foot in addition to moony.
Before Tunisian independents relation was peaceful.
Her family was Zionists.
She remembers her father stories about the war
She came to Israel and built a family
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Raoul Cohen-Addad Archives file 24 A, 19/6/1940, pages 186-193 Reflections on the political and military situation in France 1940