The Yad Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities of the East has launched a new online database containing documents which shed light on a chapter in Jewish history of which little has been known to date: the fate of North African Jewry during World War II.
Dr. Haim Saadoun, administrator of the new database and dean of students at the Open University, spoke to Arutz Sheva about the new database on Sunday, saying that in the last five years there has been an awakening in terms of public interest about the events that befell the Jews of North Africa during the war.
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