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Sidi Azaz labor camp
| Sidi Azaz labor camp | |
|---|---|
| Italian concentration camp, labor camp | |
  Sidi Azaz within Libya | |
| Coordinates | 32°43′41.002″N 13°55′59.999″E / 32.72805611°N 13.93333306°E |
| Other names | סידי עזאז ,سيدي عزاز[1] |
| Location | Sidi Azaz, Libya |
| Operated by | Fascist Italy |
| Operational | July 1942–Late January 1943 |
| Inmates | Libyan Jewish males aged 18–45 |
| Number of inmates | 3,000 (initial) 1,000 (after release of weak and wealthy) |
| Killed | 3 |
The labor camp at Sidi Azaz[a] was a forced labor camp for Libyan Jews near Homs in Tripolitania.[7][8] The camp was established by fascist Italy in 1942, during its occupation of Libya, and liberated by British forces in 1943. 3,000 Jewish men were initially brought to Sidi Azaz, but the majority were released, leaving approximately 1,000 prisoners to labor at the camp, mostly building railroads and repairing roads.[6] In August 1942, 350 prisoners from Sidi Azaz were relocated to establish Buq Buq labor camp at the Egyptian border.[8]
Three prisoners' deaths are known to have occurred at Sidi Azaz—one man shot by an Italian guard, one man in a truck accident, and one Jewish boy killed in a conflict with local Arabs.[9][10]
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- ^ a b "Italian-Occupied North Africa". The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, vol. III: Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany. Indiana University Press. 2018. pp. 529–530. doi:10.2307/j.ctt22zmbr7.19. ISBN 978-0-253-02373-5. JSTOR j.ctt22zmbr7.19.
- ^ The Encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust. 2: K - Sered (1. publ ed.). New York, NY: New York University Press [u.a.] 2001. ISBN 978-0-8147-9377-0.
- ^ a b Abramski-Bligh, Irit (1990). "Libya: Forced Labor and Internment Camps: Bukbuk". In Gutman, Israel (ed.). Encyclopedia of the holocaust. 3: L - R. New York: Macmillan. p. 868. ISBN 978-0-02-897165-0.
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