A letter to General Von Arnim dated January 1943, with a request to free a Tunisian citizen of Arabic descent who was arrested in 1940 after riots between Jews and Arabs.
The plea for his release was because he fought for Jews who resisted the Nazi regime, and among other reasons.
German Foreign Office Archive File R-27768
Report on two Jewish merchants who smuggled goods from the US Army
Courtesy of Yad Vashem
Haim Issac ID from Oran
Haim Issac Archive
file no. MMD39210 USA National Archives
USA National Archives file no. MMD745008
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leaflet calling Italian solders to surrender
USA National Archives file no. MMD145023
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USA National Archives MMD145023
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Police report from April 28th. 1936 on collusions between Jews and Muslims in Oran
Archives de la Guerre, Paris. File number: 9H36
Document declassified from the US National Archives/US Holocaust Memorial Archive 745023 on 2-29-08
July 9, 1943
While some in the local populations collaborated with the fascists many others still remained defiant toward the foreign forces whose rule had become more cruel as the war progressed. This testimony recounts the experience of Arabs living in prison camps and being tortured by the Germans. Abdullah Hassine had been killed after being beaten severely by his prison guards, and Hamani who was imprisoned for allegedly having said “La France est finie.”
