Giado concentration camp

Giado concentration camp
Italian concentration camp
Giado concentration camp
Giado concentration camp is located in Libya
Giado concentration camp
Location of Giado concentration camp within Libya
Coordinates31°58′8″N 12°1′10″E / 31.96889°N 12.01944°E / 31.96889; 12.01944
LocationGiado, Libya
Built byFascist Italy
CommandantEttore Bastico
OperationalMay 1942 – January 1943
InmatesJews
Number of inmates2,600 (approximate)
Killed562
Liberated byBritish Army
Notable inmatesFrija Zoaretz

The Giado concentration camp was a forced labor concentration camp for Italian and Libyan Jews in Giado, Libya (now called Jadu), operating during the Second World War from May 1942 until its liberation by British troops in January 1943. The camp was established on the orders of Benito Mussolini, the Prime Minister of Italy. At the time, Libya was under Italian colonial control and was known as Italian Libya.

Of the 2,600 Jews who were imprisoned there, 562 died, mostly from hunger and louse-borne typhus. Due to its poor conditions, Giado had the highest death toll of all the North African labor camps in World War II, and its victims make up the highest number of Jewish victims of World War II in the Muslim world.