Giado concentration camp
Fascist Libyan concentration camp for Jews / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Giado concentration camp was a forced labor concentration camp for Italian and Libyan Jews in Giado, Libya (now called Jadu), operating during the Second World War from 1942 until its liberation by British troops in 1943. The camp was established on order of Benito Mussolini, the Prime Minister of Italy, which was then occupying Libya.
Giado concentration camp | |
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Italian concentration camp | |
Coordinates | 31.95°N 12.016667°E / 31.95; 12.016667 |
Location | Giado, Libya |
Built by | Fascist Italy |
Commandant | Ettore Bastico |
Operational | May 1942 – January 1943 |
Inmates | Jews |
Number of inmates | 2,600 (approximate) |
Killed | 562 |
Liberation | January 24, 1943 |
Liberated by | British Army |
Notable inmates | Frija Zoaretz |
About 2,600 Jews were imprisoned there, with 562 dying, mostly from hunger and louse-borne typhus. Giado had the highest death toll of all the North African labor camps in World War II, and its victims make up the highest number of Jewish victims of World War II in the Muslim world. The camp's conditions were notoriously bad, and because of the deadly conditions that were allowed to fester and kill its prisoners, Giado is generally considered a death camp rather than an internment camp.