World War II - Mother Tongue

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Pogroms against the Jews of Algeria under the Nazis

Recruited family members during World War II

Recruiting young men to the army during World War II

The Nazi invasion to Algeria

World War II in Algeria

Bukhara

Tashkent

Her father's draft evasion and her parents' relationship

Caucasus

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Military service during World War II

Europe: Eastern

Buhuși (Romania)

World War II and relationship with non-Jews

Georgia

Kulashi

Life story and family's livelihood during World War II

Greece

Aigio

Escaping the Nazis to Granada and Klapatsouna

Her uncle's attempt to rescue Jews

Hiding in mountains with villagers' assistance

Returning to the city after World War II

Song about Mussolini

The synagogue and war time

Ioannina

The Greek language by the Jews of Ioannina

Thessaloniki

Community structures that were destroyed during World War II

Life in Thessaloniki during World War II

Iran

Istanbul

Travel and World War II

Salmas

Travel and World War II

Iraq

Baghdad

Jewish brigade of the British army

Kurdistan

Zakho

Farhud

Libya

Al-Khums

German bombings, forced labour and starvation

Song about American aircraft

The imprisonment of his friend in the Italian military prison and bringing Jewish women from the labour camp

Benghazi

Escape to the mountains and life during the Nazi invasion of Libya

Life on a mount village near Misrata

Misrata

Escape to the mountains and life during the Nazi invasion of Libya

Life on a mount village near Misrata

Morocco

Beni-Mellal

Making a Hitler doll, forced labour and staying in the dark

Casablanca

Synagogues and time of the holocaust

World War II and the abundance that followed

Fes

Students' protest song against the war

Meknes

Mogador (Essaouira)

World War II and the abundance that followed

Ouled Mansour

Morocco during the holocaust

Tunisia

Ben Gardane

Escaping Ben Gardane during the Nazi invasion

Djerba

El Ḥamma

Gabes

Life in Tunisia, World War II, settlement and absorption

Rabbi Moshe Chalphon Hacohen and the Nazi invasion

Rabbis

The Nazi invasion, hiding in a train station and returning to destroyed Gabes on Passover Eve

The stay in the concentration camps during World War II

Gafsa

Pogroms during the holocaust

Relationship with the Muslims and roots trip

La Goulette

His father's rescue from the Nazis and the fate of La Goulette's Jews

Moknine

Childhood memory from World War II

Sousse

Song of World War II distress

Songs of World War II and making Aliya

Zarzis

Removal of ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and life in Zarzis during the German invasion to Tunisia

The Nazi invasion to Zarzis

Turkey

Istanbul

School, synagogue, community and World War II

Izmir

Family and World War II

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