“The misleading and frustrating term ‘Holocaust of European Jews’ has become commonplace in Israel and around the world, obscuring the suffering and terror experienced by North African Jews under the Nazi regime and its agents, especially the Italians.

It’s true that there was no systematic extermination in North Africa, but this was due to a combination of circumstances, timing issues, results of battles against the Allies, and the typhus epidemic that broke out in the Giado camp, infecting the prisoners and causing the Germans to abandon the deportation of all Giado detainees to the extermination mechanism in Europe. Moreover, the document appearing in the book, from the Wannsee Conference, shows that all Libyan Jews were included in the extermination plans led by Eichmann and discussed during the conference. Libyan Jews were saved from mass extermination thanks to the development of battles in the Libya-Tunisia area and the losses of the German army against the Allies. Any other military-historical development would have ended in deportation and extermination.” – Shlomo Abramovich