Conditions worsened for the Jews of Libya after the passage of Italy's Manifesto of Race in 1938. Following the German intervention in 1941, some Jews were sent to camps in continental Europe, where those who survived stayed until the end of World War II.[1][2]
Italian Libya had two large Jewish communities, one in the western district of Tripolitania, and mainly in its capital Tripoli, and the other in the eastern district of Cyrenaica and its capital Benghazi. During the Holocaust hundreds of Jews died of starvation.[3][4] With approximately 40,000 Jews living in Libya before the war, as a result of the later Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries, there are no Jews left in the country today.[5]
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- ^ "Jewish resistance in Libya". Organization of Partizans Underground and Ghetto Fighters. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ^ "The Terrors of the Holocaust…in North Africa?!". 8 April 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- ^ Sheryl Ochayon. "The International School for Holocaust Studies - The Jews of Libya". Yad Vashem. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ^ Fendel, Hillel (16 February 2011). "New Middle East at a Glance-Leader by Leader: Part II".