Series: North Africa

Browse a series of articles describing North Africa's Jews on the eve of World War II; the North African military campaigns of World War II and their impact; the Vichy regime's introduction of race laws in the North African territories in October of 1940; and the networks of labor camps created or repurposed there.

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