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Holocaust survivors return to Libya from Bergen Belsen concentration camp, 1945. (Yad Vashem)

We can no longer deny the Holocaust of Libya’s Jews

I wanted to believe that my mother’s cries, who for years woke up in the middle of the night, crying in a mix of Arabic and Italian, were not heard by a single writer of Israeli history. By Yossi Sucary I wanted the believe that the Nazis’ bullets, which struck the heads of my mother’s…

By +972 Magazine April 16, 2015

View of Tripoli (photo: Gordontour/Flickr)

Letter from Tripoli: An eyewitness account

Yesterday evening (21 February) I was able to speak via Skype for about 20 minutes with a friend who lives in Sarraj, a suburb of Tripoli that is located 10 kilometers west of the city’s center. He agreed to my publishing a summary of the main points of our conversation; and he also answered some…

By Lisa Goldman February 21, 2011