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Libyan-Jewish Holocaust survivors returning to Libya from Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen; 1945. x

The Holocaust not only affected Europe but also affected North Africa’s large Jewish population.  Libya was no exception to this.  By 1931, 21,000 Jewish people lived in Libya which made up 4% of the total population.  The majority of the Libyan Jewish population went to Jado Concentration Camp in Libya where many died of malnutrition and Typhoid from unsanitary conditions as little preparation was made to house the thousands of Jewish prisoners there.

A smaller number of Libyan Jews were sent to Europe where many would not survive the Holocaust.  They had died at higher rates than European Jewish communities because of the differences in language and climate.  When they returned to Libya after World War II, the Jewish community in Libya was in disarray and mostly lived in squalor and lived that way until they were kicked out of the country in 1967.  There are no more Jewish people left in Libya as the last Jewish person in Libya, Esmeralda Meghnagi, had died in 2002.